PSN vs. AUR, KD, COHR, FCN, CFLT, WEX, NOV, RHI, ULS, and SPSC
Should you be buying Parsons stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Parsons include Aurora Innovation (AUR), Kyndryl (KD), Coherent (COHR), FTI Consulting (FCN), Confluent (CFLT), WEX (WEX), NOV (NOV), Robert Half (RHI), UL Solutions (ULS), and SPS Commerce (SPSC). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) and Parsons (NYSE:PSN) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
44.7% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.0% of Parsons shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.8% of Aurora Innovation shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 56.0% of Parsons shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Parsons has a net margin of 0.49% compared to Parsons' net margin of 0.00%. Aurora Innovation's return on equity of 11.27% beat Parsons' return on equity.
Parsons received 98 more outperform votes than Aurora Innovation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.14% of users gave Parsons an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Aurora Innovation an outperform vote.
Aurora Innovation presently has a consensus target price of $3.75, indicating a potential upside of 16.46%. Parsons has a consensus target price of $83.10, indicating a potential upside of 5.75%. Given Parsons' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than Parsons.
Parsons has higher revenue and earnings than Aurora Innovation. Aurora Innovation is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Parsons, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.85, suggesting that its stock price is 185% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Parsons has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Aurora Innovation had 5 more articles in the media than Parsons. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Aurora Innovation and 9 mentions for Parsons. Parsons' average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Aurora Innovation's score of 0.49 indicating that Aurora Innovation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Parsons beats Aurora Innovation on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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