MELI vs. FIS, MSCI, CSGP, UBER, GPN, EBAY, Z, PDD, BABA, and SBUX
Should you be buying MercadoLibre stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MercadoLibre include Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), MSCI (MSCI), CoStar Group (CSGP), Uber Technologies (UBER), Global Payments (GPN), eBay (EBAY), Zillow Group (Z), PDD (PDD), Alibaba Group (BABA), and Starbucks (SBUX).
MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI) and Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, valuation and analyst recommendations.
MercadoLibre has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity National Information Services. Fidelity National Information Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MercadoLibre, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MercadoLibre has a net margin of 7.17% compared to Fidelity National Information Services' net margin of -54.14%. MercadoLibre's return on equity of 39.46% beat Fidelity National Information Services' return on equity.
87.6% of MercadoLibre shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.2% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of MercadoLibre shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.7% of Fidelity National Information Services shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MercadoLibre currently has a consensus target price of $1,820.38, suggesting a potential upside of 5.93%. Fidelity National Information Services has a consensus target price of $78.11, suggesting a potential upside of 0.81%. Given MercadoLibre's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe MercadoLibre is more favorable than Fidelity National Information Services.
In the previous week, Fidelity National Information Services had 20 more articles in the media than MercadoLibre. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for Fidelity National Information Services and 13 mentions for MercadoLibre. MercadoLibre's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Fidelity National Information Services' score of 0.68 indicating that MercadoLibre is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MercadoLibre has a beta of 1.45, suggesting that its stock price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity National Information Services has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fidelity National Information Services received 116 more outperform votes than MercadoLibre when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.88% of users gave Fidelity National Information Services an outperform vote while only 65.22% of users gave MercadoLibre an outperform vote.
Summary
MercadoLibre beats Fidelity National Information Services on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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