EXLS vs. MMS, WU, PAY, PHR, RPAY, ACCD, WEX, FOUR, DLO, and CBZ
Should you be buying ExlService stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ExlService include Maximus (MMS), Western Union (WU), Paymentus (PAY), Phreesia (PHR), Repay (RPAY), Accolade (ACCD), WEX (WEX), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), DLocal (DLO), and CBIZ (CBZ). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Maximus (NYSE:MMS) and ExlService (NASDAQ:EXLS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and valuation.
Maximus has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ExlService has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ExlService received 99 more outperform votes than Maximus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.78% of users gave Maximus an outperform vote while only 61.15% of users gave ExlService an outperform vote.
97.2% of Maximus shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.9% of ExlService shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.4% of Maximus shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.8% of ExlService shares are owned by 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.
Maximus currently has a consensus price target of $102.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.82%. ExlService has a consensus price target of $36.14, suggesting a potential upside of 23.10%. Given ExlService's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Maximus is more favorable than ExlService.
ExlService has a net margin of 11.32% compared to ExlService's net margin of 3.73%. Maximus' return on equity of 22.83% beat ExlService's return on equity.
ExlService has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Maximus. Maximus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ExlService, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Maximus had 3 more articles in the media than ExlService. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Maximus and 9 mentions for ExlService. ExlService's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Maximus' score of 0.29 indicating that Maximus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
ExlService beats Maximus on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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