NVEI vs. WU, DLO, CNXC, EXLS, FOUR, MMS, CBZ, TNET, ENV, and FLYW
Should you be buying Nuvei stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuvei include Western Union (WU), DLocal (DLO), Concentrix (CNXC), ExlService (EXLS), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Maximus (MMS), CBIZ (CBZ), TriNet Group (TNET), Envestnet (ENV), and Flywire (FLYW). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Western Union (NYSE:WU) and Nuvei (NASDAQ:NVEI) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Western Union currently has a consensus target price of $13.61, suggesting a potential upside of 1.35%. Nuvei has a consensus target price of $31.94, suggesting a potential downside of 1.28%. Given Nuvei's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Western Union is more favorable than Nuvei.
In the previous week, Western Union had 1 more articles in the media than Nuvei. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Western Union and 6 mentions for Nuvei. Nuvei's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Western Union's score of 0.78 indicating that Western Union is being referred to more favorably in the media.
91.8% of Western Union shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.5% of Nuvei shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Western Union shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.0% of Nuvei shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Western Union received 543 more outperform votes than Nuvei when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.89% of users gave Nuvei an outperform vote while only 53.78% of users gave Western Union an outperform vote.
Western Union has higher revenue and earnings than Nuvei. Nuvei is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Western Union, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Western Union pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Nuvei pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Western Union pays out 55.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Nuvei pays out -333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Western Union has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuvei has a beta of 2.59, suggesting that its share price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Western Union has a net margin of 14.12% compared to Western Union's net margin of -0.66%. Nuvei's return on equity of 120.76% beat Western Union's return on equity.
Summary
Western Union beats Nuvei on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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