TRU vs. PYPL, WCN, TCOM, IQV, RDDT, GIB, CPAY, KSPI, AER, and GRAB
Should you be buying TransUnion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TransUnion include PayPal (PYPL), Waste Connections (WCN), Trip.com Group (TCOM), IQVIA (IQV), Reddit (RDDT), CGI (GIB), Corpay (CPAY), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), AerCap (AER), and Grab (GRAB). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
TransUnion vs.
PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, risk and institutional ownership.
68.3% of PayPal shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of PayPal shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of TransUnion shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, PayPal had 44 more articles in the media than TransUnion. MarketBeat recorded 66 mentions for PayPal and 22 mentions for TransUnion. PayPal's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat TransUnion's score of 0.45 indicating that PayPal is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PayPal currently has a consensus target price of $90.52, suggesting a potential upside of 20.41%. TransUnion has a consensus target price of $111.64, suggesting a potential upside of 22.31%. Given TransUnion's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TransUnion is more favorable than PayPal.
PayPal has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TransUnion has a beta of 1.63, meaning that its share price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PayPal has a net margin of 13.04% compared to TransUnion's net margin of 6.80%. PayPal's return on equity of 23.67% beat TransUnion's return on equity.
PayPal has higher revenue and earnings than TransUnion. PayPal is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TransUnion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PayPal received 1306 more outperform votes than TransUnion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.66% of users gave PayPal an outperform vote while only 67.31% of users gave TransUnion an outperform vote.
Summary
PayPal beats TransUnion on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TRU) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
