PAY vs. WPS, FNX, BOKU, SEE, IOM, BKS, SPT, BYIT, NCC, and FDM
Should you be buying PayPoint stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PayPoint include W.A.G payment solutions (WPS), Fonix Mobile (FNX), Boku (BOKU), Seeing Machines (SEE), iomart Group (IOM), Beeks Financial Cloud Group (BKS), Spirent Communications (SPT), Bytes Technology Group (BYIT), NCC Group (NCC), and FDM Group (FDM). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
W.A.G payment solutions (LON:WPS) and PayPoint (LON:PAY) are both small-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
40.9% of W.A.G payment solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.6% of PayPoint shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.8% of W.A.G payment solutions shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 32.1% of PayPoint shares are owned by 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.
PayPoint has lower revenue, but higher earnings than W.A.G payment solutions. W.A.G payment solutions is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PayPoint, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PayPoint received 345 more outperform votes than W.A.G payment solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave W.A.G payment solutions an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave PayPoint an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PayPoint had 4 more articles in the media than W.A.G payment solutions. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for PayPoint and 0 mentions for W.A.G payment solutions. W.A.G payment solutions' average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat PayPoint's score of 0.00 indicating that PayPoint is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PayPoint has a net margin of 14.27% compared to PayPoint's net margin of -2.19%. W.A.G payment solutions' return on equity of 30.59% beat PayPoint's return on equity.
PayPoint has a consensus price target of GBX 675, indicating a potential upside of 28.08%. Given W.A.G payment solutions' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PayPoint is more favorable than W.A.G payment solutions.
W.A.G payment solutions has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PayPoint has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PayPoint beats W.A.G payment solutions on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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