WPS vs. PAY, BOKU, FNX, SEE, IOM, BKS, SPT, BYIT, MIDW, and CER
Should you be buying W.A.G payment solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of W.A.G payment solutions include PayPoint (PAY), Boku (BOKU), Fonix Mobile (FNX), Seeing Machines (SEE), iomart Group (IOM), Beeks Financial Cloud Group (BKS), Spirent Communications (SPT), Bytes Technology Group (BYIT), Midwich Group (MIDW), and Cerillion (CER). 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 investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, earnings and media sentiment.
PayPoint has a consensus target price of GBX 675, suggesting a potential upside of 24.08%. Given PayPoint's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PayPoint is more favorable than W.A.G payment solutions.
40.6% of W.A.G payment solutions shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of PayPoint shares are held by institutional investors. 47.8% of W.A.G payment solutions shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 32.1% of PayPoint shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, PayPoint had 1 more articles in the media than W.A.G payment solutions. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for PayPoint and 0 mentions for W.A.G payment solutions. PayPoint's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat W.A.G payment solutions' 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 W.A.G payment solutions' net margin of -2.19%. PayPoint's return on equity of 30.59% beat W.A.G payment solutions' return on equity.
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.
Summary
PayPoint beats W.A.G payment solutions on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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