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$192.68 -10.26 (-5.06%)
(As of 11/15/2024 ET)

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

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

IQVIA vs.

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

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
Fiserv$18.15B7.30$2.38B$3.7955.65
IQVIA$14.98B2.33$1.36B$7.6225.29

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
FiservN/A N/A N/A
IQVIA 9.17%28.17%6.89%

IQVIA received 660 more outperform votes than Fiserv when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Fiserv an outperform vote while only 68.21% of users gave IQVIA an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
FiservOutperform Votes
5
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes
IQVIAOutperform Votes
665
68.21%
Underperform Votes
310
31.79%

Fiserv has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IQVIA has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, IQVIA had 13 more articles in the media than Fiserv. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for IQVIA and 1 mentions for Fiserv. IQVIA's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Fiserv's score of 0.00 indicating that IQVIA is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Fiserv
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
IQVIA
10 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

88.8% of Fiserv shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.6% of IQVIA shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Fiserv shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of IQVIA shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

IQVIA has a consensus price target of $259.13, suggesting a potential upside of 34.48%. Given IQVIA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IQVIA is more favorable than Fiserv.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Fiserv
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
IQVIA
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.84

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$34.97B$4.32B$5.07B$19.82B
Dividend YieldN/A1.56%5.10%3.50%
P/E Ratio25.2959.64101.9242.31
Price / Sales2.3365.191,198.0820.82
Price / Cash13.4424.7040.9721.65
Price / Book5.023.096.334.66
Net Income$1.36B$139.66M$119.64M$983.45M
7 Day Performance-12.11%-2.47%-5.13%-2.12%
1 Month Performance-17.62%14.99%-2.72%-0.39%
1 Year Performance-5.91%28.72%31.08%23.34%

IQVIA Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
IQV
IQVIA
4.9857 of 5 stars
$192.68
-5.1%
$259.13
+34.5%
-5.9%$34.97B$14.98B25.2987,000Positive News
High Trading Volume
FISV
Fiserv
0.2842 of 5 stars
$210.85
-1.1%
N/AN/A$132.44B$18.15B55.6341,000Analyst Forecast
MELI
MercadoLibre
4.7798 of 5 stars
$1,880.00
+0.2%
N/A+27.9%$95.32B$14.47B66.3415,638Analyst Forecast
PYPL
PayPal
4.6081 of 5 stars
$85.83
+0.0%
N/A+51.1%$86.05B$29.77B20.4827,200Positive News
RELX
Relx
2.3147 of 5 stars
$44.45
-3.3%
N/A+20.8%$82.86B$9.91B0.0036,500Short Interest ↓
Positive News
Gap Down
WCN
Waste Connections
4.5387 of 5 stars
$183.50
-0.1%
N/A+36.0%$47.35B$8.02B50.4122,539Short Interest ↓
Analyst Revision
TCOM
Trip.com Group
4.51 of 5 stars
$59.49
-0.7%
N/A+68.2%$38.32B$6.27B20.8036,249Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
Positive News
CPAY
Corpay
4.0239 of 5 stars
$363.36
-1.9%
N/AN/A$25.33B$3.76B25.9210,500Analyst Forecast
Insider Selling
Short Interest ↓
GIB
CGI
4.18 of 5 stars
$107.45
+0.3%
N/A+4.8%$24.49B$10.79B19.9791,500Analyst Upgrade
Positive News
KSPI
Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz
4.0799 of 5 stars
$109.98
-0.2%
N/AN/A$21.94B$4.19B0.008,772
RDDT
Reddit
1.4552 of 5 stars
$124.78
-5.4%
N/AN/A$21.91B$804.03M0.002,013Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:IQV) was last updated on 11/17/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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