MARA vs. PAGS, IDCC, EVTC, RAMP, STER, EXLS, AUR, EXPO, TNET, and DNB
Should you be buying Marathon Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marathon Digital include PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), InterDigital (IDCC), EVERTEC (EVTC), LiveRamp (RAMP), Sterling Check (STER), ExlService (EXLS), Aurora Innovation (AUR), Exponent (EXPO), TriNet Group (TNET), and Dun & Bradstreet (DNB).
Marathon Digital (NASDAQ:MARA) and PagSeguro Digital (NYSE:PAGS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
44.5% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.9% of PagSeguro Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Marathon Digital presently has a consensus price target of $19.69, suggesting a potential upside of 1.21%. PagSeguro Digital has a consensus price target of $15.20, suggesting a potential upside of 19.08%. Given PagSeguro Digital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PagSeguro Digital is more favorable than Marathon Digital.
PagSeguro Digital received 78 more outperform votes than Marathon Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.74% of users gave PagSeguro Digital an outperform vote while only 53.79% of users gave Marathon Digital an outperform vote.
PagSeguro Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Marathon Digital. Marathon Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PagSeguro Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Marathon Digital had 18 more articles in the media than PagSeguro Digital. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Marathon Digital and 3 mentions for PagSeguro Digital. PagSeguro Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Marathon Digital's score of 0.30 indicating that PagSeguro Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marathon Digital has a net margin of 106.46% compared to PagSeguro Digital's net margin of 10.37%. PagSeguro Digital's return on equity of 13.94% beat Marathon Digital's return on equity.
Marathon Digital has a beta of 5.38, indicating that its share price is 438% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagSeguro Digital has a beta of 1.82, indicating that its share price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PagSeguro Digital beats Marathon Digital on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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