NVEI vs. WU, CNXC, EXLS, DLO, TNET, CBZ, MMS, ENV, FOUR, and WNS
Should you be buying Nuvei stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuvei include Western Union (WU), Concentrix (CNXC), ExlService (EXLS), DLocal (DLO), TriNet Group (TNET), CBIZ (CBZ), Maximus (MMS), Envestnet (ENV), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), and WNS (WNS). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuvei (NASDAQ:NVEI) and Western Union (NYSE:WU) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.
42.5% of Nuvei shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.8% of Western Union shares are held by institutional investors. 20.0% of Nuvei shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Western Union shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nuvei presently has a consensus target price of $32.06, suggesting a potential downside of 0.61%. Western Union has a consensus target price of $13.61, suggesting a potential upside of 3.59%. Given Western Union's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Western Union is more favorable than Nuvei.
Nuvei pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Western Union pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%. Nuvei pays out -1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Western Union pays out 55.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Western Union has higher revenue and earnings than Nuvei. Nuvei is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Western Union, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Western Union received 543 more outperform votes than Nuvei when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.29% of users gave Nuvei an outperform vote while only 53.78% of users gave Western Union an outperform vote.
Nuvei has a beta of 2.59, indicating that its stock price is 159% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Union has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Western Union had 12 more articles in the media than Nuvei. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Western Union and 5 mentions for Nuvei. Nuvei's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Western Union's score of 0.82 indicating that Nuvei is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Western Union has a net margin of 14.12% compared to Nuvei's net margin of -0.39%. Western Union's return on equity of 120.76% beat Nuvei's return on equity.
Summary
Western Union beats Nuvei on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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