PAYX vs. WCN, SQ, FIS, PLTR, NU, CPRT, IT, GPN, VRSK, and SPOT
Should you be buying Paychex stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paychex include Waste Connections (WCN), Block (SQ), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Palantir Technologies (PLTR), NU (NU), Copart (CPRT), Gartner (IT), Global Payments (GPN), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), and Spotify Technology (SPOT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Paychex (NASDAQ:PAYX) and Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
83.5% of Paychex shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 86.1% of Waste Connections shares are held by institutional investors. 11.5% of Paychex shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Waste Connections shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Paychex currently has a consensus target price of $123.00, indicating a potential upside of 1.49%. Waste Connections has a consensus target price of $179.33, indicating a potential upside of 8.44%. Given Waste Connections' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Waste Connections is more favorable than Paychex.
Paychex has a net margin of 31.86% compared to Waste Connections' net margin of 9.70%. Paychex's return on equity of 46.14% beat Waste Connections' return on equity.
In the previous week, Paychex had 3 more articles in the media than Waste Connections. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Paychex and 8 mentions for Waste Connections. Paychex's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat Waste Connections' score of 0.18 indicating that Paychex is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paychex has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Waste Connections. Paychex is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waste Connections, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Paychex pays an annual dividend of $3.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Waste Connections pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Paychex pays out 85.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Waste Connections pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Waste Connections received 502 more outperform votes than Paychex when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.18% of users gave Waste Connections an outperform vote while only 42.61% of users gave Paychex an outperform vote.
Paychex has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waste Connections has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Paychex beats Waste Connections on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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