FLYW vs. PAY, FA, WNS, PAYO, ENV, CBZ, CNXC, ADV, MAX, and RPAY
Should you be buying Flywire stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flywire include Paymentus (PAY), First Advantage (FA), WNS (WNS), Payoneer Global (PAYO), Envestnet (ENV), CBIZ (CBZ), Concentrix (CNXC), Advantage Solutions (ADV), MediaAlpha (MAX), and Repay (RPAY). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Paymentus (NYSE:PAY) and Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, Flywire had 19 more articles in the media than Paymentus. MarketBeat recorded 44 mentions for Flywire and 25 mentions for Paymentus. Flywire's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Paymentus' score of -0.03 indicating that Paymentus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paymentus received 552 more outperform votes than Flywire when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.03% of users gave Flywire an outperform vote while only 60.21% of users gave Paymentus an outperform vote.
Paymentus has higher revenue and earnings than Flywire. Flywire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paymentus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Paymentus currently has a consensus target price of $19.06, indicating a potential downside of 0.66%. Flywire has a consensus target price of $31.29, indicating a potential upside of 78.06%. Given Paymentus' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Flywire is more favorable than Paymentus.
12.6% of Paymentus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.9% of Flywire shares are held by institutional investors. 87.8% of Paymentus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Flywire shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Paymentus has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flywire has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Paymentus has a net margin of 3.63% compared to Paymentus' net margin of -2.13%. Flywire's return on equity of 7.42% beat Paymentus' return on equity.
Summary
Paymentus beats Flywire on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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