STN vs. CART, WEX, CFLT, FUTU, DUOL, AFRM, PSN, COHR, PCOR, and APG
Should you be buying Stantec stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stantec include Maplebear (CART), WEX (WEX), Confluent (CFLT), Futu (FUTU), Duolingo (DUOL), Affirm (AFRM), Parsons (PSN), Coherent (COHR), Procore Technologies (PCOR), and APi Group (APG). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Maplebear (NASDAQ:CART) and Stantec (NYSE:STN) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.
In the previous week, Maplebear had 9 more articles in the media than Stantec. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Maplebear and 8 mentions for Stantec. Maplebear's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat Stantec's score of 0.42 indicating that Stantec is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Stantec received 376 more outperform votes than Maplebear when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.91% of users gave Stantec an outperform vote while only 57.50% of users gave Maplebear an outperform vote.
Stantec has higher revenue and earnings than Maplebear.
63.1% of Maplebear shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.9% of Stantec shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Maplebear shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Stantec shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Maplebear currently has a consensus price target of $38.79, indicating a potential upside of 5.69%. Stantec has a consensus price target of $105.00, indicating a potential upside of 25.40%. Given Maplebear's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Stantec is more favorable than Maplebear.
Stantec has a net margin of 5.11% compared to Stantec's net margin of 0.00%. Maplebear's return on equity of 16.50% beat Stantec's return on equity.
Summary
Stantec beats Maplebear on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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