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ULS vs. IQV, RDDT, GIB, CPAY, Z, KSPI, TOST, AER, TRU, and ZG

Should you be buying UL Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UL Solutions include IQVIA (IQV), Reddit (RDDT), CGI (GIB), Corpay (CPAY), Zillow Group (Z), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Toast (TOST), AerCap (AER), TransUnion (TRU), and Zillow Group (ZG). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.

UL Solutions vs.

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

IQVIA presently has a consensus price target of $254.53, suggesting a potential upside of 27.26%. UL Solutions has a consensus price target of $49.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.43%. Given IQVIA's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe IQVIA is more favorable than UL Solutions.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
IQVIA
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.86
UL Solutions
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67

IQVIA received 658 more outperform votes than UL Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.22% of users gave IQVIA an outperform vote while only 64.00% of users gave UL Solutions an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
IQVIAOutperform Votes
674
68.22%
Underperform Votes
314
31.78%
UL SolutionsOutperform Votes
16
64.00%
Underperform Votes
9
36.00%

In the previous week, IQVIA had 29 more articles in the media than UL Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 32 mentions for IQVIA and 3 mentions for UL Solutions. UL Solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat IQVIA's score of 0.62 indicating that UL Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
IQVIA
14 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
9 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
UL Solutions
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

UL Solutions has a net margin of 10.76% compared to IQVIA's net margin of 9.17%. UL Solutions' return on equity of 40.88% beat IQVIA's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
IQVIA9.17% 28.17% 6.89%
UL Solutions 10.76%40.88%11.13%

IQVIA has higher revenue and earnings than UL Solutions.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
IQVIA$14.98B2.42$1.36B$7.6226.25
UL Solutions$2.68B4.04$260MN/AN/A

89.6% of IQVIA shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of IQVIA 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.

Summary

IQVIA beats UL Solutions on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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ULS vs. The Competition

MetricUL SolutionsTesting laboratories IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$10.79B$4.56B$7.97B$20.08B
Dividend Yield0.93%1.47%2.22%3.68%
P/E RatioN/AN/A28.1442.62
Price / Sales4.042.7395.3716.70
Price / CashN/A32.7129.7818.00
Price / BookN/A2.836.075.91
Net Income$260M$107.05M$141.04M$1.00B
7 Day Performance0.54%-1.37%0.42%0.25%
1 Month Performance9.71%-7.00%-3.50%1.73%
1 Year PerformanceN/A-29.45%24.74%19.19%

UL Solutions Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ULS
UL Solutions
1.9177 of 5 stars
$55.56
+2.6%
$49.00
-11.8%
N/A$11.12B$2.68B0.0015,233
IQV
IQVIA
4.7661 of 5 stars
$199.34
-1.0%
$254.53
+27.7%
-5.1%$36.18B$14.98B26.1687,000Upcoming Earnings
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News Coverage
RDDT
Reddit
1.6492 of 5 stars
$202.66
+1.6%
$159.70
-21.2%
N/A$35.58B$804.03M0.002,013Upcoming Earnings
Insider Trade
Gap Down
GIB
CGI
4.0414 of 5 stars
$118.13
+0.3%
$153.25
+29.7%
+1.9%$26.78B$10.79B21.3690,250Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
Analyst Revision
CPAY
Corpay
3.4676 of 5 stars
$379.69
-0.2%
$381.43
+0.5%
N/A$26.47B$3.88B27.0810,500
Z
Zillow Group
1.7686 of 5 stars
$82.26
+0.0%
$72.83
-11.5%
+46.5%$19.21B$1.95B-144.325,720Upcoming Earnings
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News Coverage
KSPI
Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz
3.4573 of 5 stars
$95.67
+0.6%
$147.20
+53.9%
+5.9%$19.09B$2.36T0.008,772Short Interest ↑
TOST
Toast
3.0685 of 5 stars
$39.99
-2.3%
$35.74
-10.6%
+110.5%$18.83B$3.87B-307.605,500Gap Down
AER
AerCap
3.2556 of 5 stars
$95.13
-0.5%
$112.00
+17.7%
+21.0%$18.83B$7.58B7.54740Short Interest ↑
Gap Down
TRU
TransUnion
4.8524 of 5 stars
$96.31
-3.0%
$107.63
+11.7%
+41.6%$18.77B$3.83B83.7513,200Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
ZG
Zillow Group
3.9152 of 5 stars
$79.37
+0.2%
$76.16
-4.0%
+46.1%$18.54B$1.95B-139.256,263Upcoming Earnings
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