RAMP vs. EVTC, STER, GB, TIXT, YEXT, PGRU, PAGS, MARA, LSPD, and HNI
Should you be buying LiveRamp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LiveRamp include EVERTEC (EVTC), Sterling Check (STER), Global Blue Group (GB), TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT), Yext (YEXT), PropertyGuru Group (PGRU), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Marathon Digital (MARA), Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD), and HNI (HNI). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
EVERTEC (NYSE:EVTC) and LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
EVERTEC currently has a consensus target price of $41.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.87%. LiveRamp has a consensus target price of $47.75, suggesting a potential upside of 46.79%. Given EVERTEC's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe LiveRamp is more favorable than EVERTEC.
EVERTEC received 134 more outperform votes than LiveRamp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.20% of users gave LiveRamp an outperform vote while only 59.49% of users gave EVERTEC an outperform vote.
EVERTEC has higher revenue and earnings than LiveRamp. LiveRamp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EVERTEC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EVERTEC has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LiveRamp has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
EVERTEC has a net margin of 8.87% compared to EVERTEC's net margin of -2.22%. LiveRamp's return on equity of 29.86% beat EVERTEC's return on equity.
96.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.8% of LiveRamp shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.9% of LiveRamp shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, EVERTEC had 2 more articles in the media than LiveRamp. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for EVERTEC and 3 mentions for LiveRamp. LiveRamp's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat EVERTEC's score of 0.66 indicating that EVERTEC is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
EVERTEC beats LiveRamp on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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