MAX vs. FIVN, PLTK, STNE, FLYW, PAGS, YY, UPWK, WNS, CRTO, and PINC
Should you be buying MediaAlpha stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MediaAlpha include Five9 (FIVN), Playtika (PLTK), StoneCo (STNE), Flywire (FLYW), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), JOYY (YY), Upwork (UPWK), WNS (WNS), Criteo (CRTO), and Premier (PINC). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
MediaAlpha vs.
MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) and Five9 (NASDAQ:FIVN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.
Five9 received 558 more outperform votes than MediaAlpha when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.97% of users gave Five9 an outperform vote while only 67.74% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote.
MediaAlpha has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Five9. Five9 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MediaAlpha, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MediaAlpha currently has a consensus price target of $21.57, indicating a potential upside of 93.31%. Five9 has a consensus price target of $57.50, indicating a potential upside of 53.78%. Given MediaAlpha's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe MediaAlpha is more favorable than Five9.
In the previous week, Five9 had 30 more articles in the media than MediaAlpha. MarketBeat recorded 38 mentions for Five9 and 8 mentions for MediaAlpha. Five9's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat MediaAlpha's score of 0.09 indicating that Five9 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.6% of Five9 shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Five9 shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MediaAlpha has a net margin of 1.41% compared to Five9's net margin of -3.66%. Five9's return on equity of -1.53% beat MediaAlpha's return on equity.
MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Five9 has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MediaAlpha and Five9 tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MAX) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
