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$196.64 -0.45 (-0.23%)
(As of 12/17/2024 ET)

IQV vs. FISV, UBER, MELI, PYPL, RELX, TCOM, WCN, RDDT, GIB, and CPAY

Should you be buying IQVIA stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IQVIA include Fiserv (FISV), Uber Technologies (UBER), MercadoLibre (MELI), PayPal (PYPL), Relx (RELX), Trip.com Group (TCOM), Waste Connections (WCN), Reddit (RDDT), CGI (GIB), and Corpay (CPAY). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

IQVIA vs.

IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) and Fiserv (NASDAQ:FISV) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

IQVIA has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fiserv has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

89.6% of IQVIA shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.8% of Fiserv shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of IQVIA shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Fiserv shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

IQVIA presently has a consensus price target of $256.19, indicating a potential upside of 30.28%. Given IQVIA's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe IQVIA is more favorable than Fiserv.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
IQVIA
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.90
Fiserv
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

IQVIA has a net margin of 9.17% compared to Fiserv's net margin of 0.00%. IQVIA's return on equity of 28.17% beat Fiserv's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
IQVIA9.17% 28.17% 6.89%
Fiserv N/A N/A N/A

IQVIA received 663 more outperform votes than Fiserv when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Fiserv an outperform vote while only 68.29% of users gave IQVIA an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
IQVIAOutperform Votes
672
68.29%
Underperform Votes
312
31.71%
FiservOutperform Votes
9
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

Fiserv has higher revenue and earnings than IQVIA. IQVIA is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fiserv, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
IQVIA$15.32B2.33$1.36B$7.6225.81
Fiserv$18.15B7.07$2.38B$3.7953.87

In the previous week, IQVIA had 43 more articles in the media than Fiserv. MarketBeat recorded 45 mentions for IQVIA and 2 mentions for Fiserv. IQVIA's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Fiserv's score of 0.24 indicating that IQVIA is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
IQVIA
15 Very Positive mention(s)
7 Positive mention(s)
8 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Fiserv
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

IQVIA beats Fiserv on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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IQV vs. The Competition

MetricIQVIACommercial physical research IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$35.69B$4.22B$5.17B$19.63B
Dividend YieldN/A1.72%4.78%3.51%
P/E Ratio25.8155.82127.7743.82
Price / Sales2.3355.271,261.3917.46
Price / Cash12.6523.6241.0421.73
Price / Book5.873.254.895.46
Net Income$1.36B$139.50M$119.40M$987.18M
7 Day Performance-3.28%-3.81%14.54%-2.12%
1 Month Performance2.06%2.99%17.43%1.31%
1 Year Performance-13.27%19.96%35.31%16.44%

IQVIA Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IQV
IQVIA
4.9237 of 5 stars
$196.64
-0.2%
$256.19
+30.3%
-13.3%$35.69B$15.32B25.8187,000Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
FISV
Fiserv
0.7377 of 5 stars
$204.66
-0.1%
N/AN/A$128.55B$18.15B30.1441,000Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
UBER
Uber Technologies
4.9757 of 5 stars
$60.45
+0.9%
$90.51
+49.7%
-1.3%$127.29B$37.28B30.1430,400
MELI
MercadoLibre
4.9244 of 5 stars
$1,805.35
-1.0%
$2,267.67
+25.6%
+12.6%$91.53B$18.49B64.3615,638
PYPL
PayPal
4.1483 of 5 stars
$91.23
+0.2%
$86.74
-4.9%
+48.3%$91.46B$29.77B21.6627,200Analyst Forecast
RELX
Relx
2.1422 of 5 stars
$47.12
+0.1%
N/A+23.1%$87.71B$9.91B0.0036,500
TCOM
Trip.com Group
4.0652 of 5 stars
$72.57
+0.0%
$74.18
+2.2%
+121.0%$46.74B$48.74B21.7236,249
WCN
Waste Connections
4.6396 of 5 stars
$179.30
-0.4%
$199.88
+11.5%
+21.2%$46.27B$8.69B49.4422,539
RDDT
Reddit
1.2614 of 5 stars
$179.65
+4.1%
$124.42
-30.7%
N/A$31.54B$1.12B0.002,013
GIB
CGI
3.1853 of 5 stars
$110.43
-1.9%
$137.00
+24.1%
+2.7%$25.17B$14.52B20.9391,500Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
CPAY
Corpay
3.5279 of 5 stars
$359.93
+0.8%
$369.29
+2.6%
N/A$25.09B$3.88B25.5910,500Short Interest ↑
Positive News

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This page (NYSE:IQV) was last updated on 12/18/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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