GPN vs. FIS, BR, WEX, FI, CPAY, GRAB, RBA, CART, VRSK, and IT
Should you be buying Global Payments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Global Payments include Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), WEX (WEX), Fiserv (FI), Corpay (CPAY), Grab (GRAB), RB Global (RBA), Maplebear (CART), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), and Gartner (IT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) and Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Global Payments has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity National Information Services has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Payments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Global Payments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Global Payments has a net margin of 10.22% compared to Fidelity National Information Services' net margin of -54.30%. Fidelity National Information Services' return on equity of 13.06% beat Global Payments' return on equity.
Global Payments presently has a consensus target price of $151.92, indicating a potential upside of 21.96%. Fidelity National Information Services has a consensus target price of $71.69, indicating a potential upside of 3.00%. Given Global Payments' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Global Payments is more favorable than Fidelity National Information Services.
Global Payments received 301 more outperform votes than Fidelity National Information Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.26% of users gave Global Payments an outperform vote while only 67.90% of users gave Fidelity National Information Services an outperform vote.
89.8% of Global Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Global Payments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Global Payments and Global Payments both had 10 articles in the media. Fidelity National Information Services' average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat Global Payments' score of 0.61 indicating that Fidelity National Information Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Payments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Fidelity National Information Services pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Global Payments pays out 26.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidelity National Information Services pays out -12.8% 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. Fidelity National Information Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Global Payments beats Fidelity National Information Services on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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