ULS vs. IQV, RDDT, GIB, CPAY, KSPI, GRAB, AER, TRU, GFL, and Z
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), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Grab (GRAB), AerCap (AER), TransUnion (TRU), GFL Environmental (GFL), and Zillow Group (Z). These companies are all part of the "business services" industry.
UL Solutions vs.
IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) and UL Solutions (NYSE:ULS) are both medical companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.
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.
IQVIA currently has a consensus target price of $255.82, suggesting a potential upside of 29.60%. UL Solutions has a consensus target price of $49.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.63%. Given IQVIA's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe IQVIA is more favorable than UL Solutions.
IQVIA received 657 more outperform votes than UL Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.32% of users gave IQVIA an outperform vote while only 64.00% of users gave UL Solutions an outperform vote.
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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
IQVIA has higher revenue and earnings than UL Solutions.
In the previous week, IQVIA had 1 more articles in the media than UL Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for IQVIA and 3 mentions for UL Solutions. UL Solutions' average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat IQVIA's score of 0.96 indicating that UL Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
IQVIA beats UL Solutions on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ULS) was last updated on 1/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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