PAYS vs. PRTH, SHAP, RMNI, NOTE, EEX, RGP, SEZL, XBP, SCOR, and SWVL
Should you be buying Paysign stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paysign include Priority Technology (PRTH), Spree Acquisition Corp. 1 (SHAP), Rimini Street (RMNI), FiscalNote (NOTE), Emerald (EEX), Resources Connection (RGP), Sezzle (SEZL), XBP Europe (XBP), comScore (SCOR), and Swvl (SWVL). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Priority Technology (NASDAQ:PRTH) and Paysign (NASDAQ:PAYS) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Paysign has a net margin of 13.77% compared to Paysign's net margin of 0.57%. Priority Technology's return on equity of 32.75% beat Paysign's return on equity.
Priority Technology currently has a consensus price target of $7.75, suggesting a potential upside of 124.64%. Paysign has a consensus price target of $5.67, suggesting a potential upside of 14.94%. Given Paysign's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Priority Technology is more favorable than Paysign.
11.5% of Priority Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.9% of Paysign shares are owned by institutional investors. 76.3% of Priority Technology shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.3% of Paysign shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Paysign has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Priority Technology. Priority Technology is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paysign, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Paysign received 74 more outperform votes than Priority Technology when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 53.89% of users gave Paysign an outperform vote while only 47.92% of users gave Priority Technology an outperform vote.
Priority Technology has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paysign has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Priority Technology had 3 more articles in the media than Paysign. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Priority Technology and 4 mentions for Paysign. Paysign's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Priority Technology's score of 0.52 indicating that Priority Technology is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Paysign beats Priority Technology on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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