PAYS vs. PRTH, RMNI, SHAP, SEZL, NOTE, EEX, RGP, SWVL, SCOR, and LQDT
Should you be buying Paysign stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paysign include Priority Technology (PRTH), Rimini Street (RMNI), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Sezzle (SEZL), FiscalNote (NOTE), Emerald (EEX), Resources Connection (RGP), Swvl (SWVL), comScore (SCOR), and Liquidity Services (LQDT). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Paysign (NASDAQ:PAYS) and Priority Technology (NASDAQ:PRTH) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Paysign presently has a consensus target price of $5.67, suggesting a potential upside of 24.00%. Priority Technology has a consensus target price of $7.75, suggesting a potential upside of 122.70%. Given Priority Technology's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Priority Technology is more favorable than Paysign.
Paysign has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Priority Technology. Priority Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paysign, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Paysign has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Priority Technology has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Paysign had 6 more articles in the media than Priority Technology. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Paysign and 3 mentions for Priority Technology. Paysign's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat Priority Technology's score of -0.23 indicating that Paysign is being referred to more favorably in the media.
25.9% of Paysign shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.5% of Priority Technology shares are held by institutional investors. 23.3% of Paysign shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 76.3% of Priority Technology shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Paysign received 74 more outperform votes than Priority Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.89% of users gave Paysign an outperform vote while only 47.92% of users gave Priority Technology an outperform vote.
Paysign has a net margin of 13.66% compared to Priority Technology's net margin of -0.17%. Paysign's return on equity of 34.33% beat Priority Technology's return on equity.
Summary
Paysign beats Priority Technology on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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