PSN vs. KD, AUR, WPP, PATH, ESTC, CLH, IPG, CNM, GFL, and DOCU
Should you be buying Parsons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parsons include Kyndryl (KD), Aurora Innovation (AUR), WPP (WPP), UiPath (PATH), Elastic (ESTC), Clean Harbors (CLH), Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG), Core & Main (CNM), GFL Environmental (GFL), and DocuSign (DOCU). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) and Parsons (NYSE:PSN) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
71.5% of Kyndryl shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Parsons shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.7% of Kyndryl shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 56.0% of Parsons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Kyndryl presently has a consensus target price of $28.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.59%. Parsons has a consensus target price of $83.10, suggesting a potential upside of 8.61%. Given Kyndryl's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Parsons is more favorable than Kyndryl.
Kyndryl has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Parsons has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Kyndryl had 4 more articles in the media than Parsons. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Kyndryl and 10 mentions for Parsons. Parsons' average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Kyndryl's score of 0.05 indicating that Kyndryl is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Parsons has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kyndryl. Kyndryl is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parsons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Parsons has a net margin of 0.49% compared to Parsons' net margin of -2.12%. Kyndryl's return on equity of 11.27% beat Parsons' return on equity.
Parsons received 97 more outperform votes than Kyndryl when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave Parsons an outperform vote while only 41.18% of users gave Kyndryl an outperform vote.
Summary
Parsons beats Kyndryl on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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