NU vs. SPOT, CPRT, MRVL, RSG, PLTR, PAYX, SQ, WCN, FIS, and VRSK
Should you be buying NU stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NU include Spotify Technology (SPOT), Copart (CPRT), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Republic Services (RSG), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), Paychex (PAYX), Block (SQ), Waste Connections (WCN), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), and Verisk Analytics (VRSK). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Spotify Technology (NYSE:SPOT) and NU (NYSE:NU) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, risk, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
NU has a net margin of 13.86% compared to NU's net margin of -0.80%. Spotify Technology's return on equity of 22.94% beat NU's return on equity.
84.1% of Spotify Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.9% of NU shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Spotify Technology shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of NU shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, NU had 18 more articles in the media than Spotify Technology. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for NU and 24 mentions for Spotify Technology. NU's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Spotify Technology's score of 0.37 indicating that Spotify Technology is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Spotify Technology received 334 more outperform votes than NU when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.50% of users gave Spotify Technology an outperform vote while only 53.06% of users gave NU an outperform vote.
Spotify Technology currently has a consensus target price of $306.42, indicating a potential upside of 1.19%. NU has a consensus target price of $10.74, indicating a potential downside of 7.91%. Given NU's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Spotify Technology is more favorable than NU.
NU has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Spotify Technology. Spotify Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NU, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Spotify Technology has a beta of 1.61, indicating that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NU has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
NU beats Spotify Technology on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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