BR vs. GPN, WEX, FIS, FI, KSPI, CPAY, GRAB, RBA, CART, and VLTO
Should you be buying Broadridge Financial Solutions stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Broadridge Financial Solutions include Global Payments (GPN), WEX (WEX), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Fiserv (FI), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Corpay (CPAY), Grab (GRAB), RB Global (RBA), Maplebear (CART), and Veralto (VLTO). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) and Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
89.8% of Global Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 90.0% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Global Payments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Broadridge Financial Solutions shares are owned 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.
Global Payments presently has a consensus target price of $150.00, suggesting a potential upside of 35.06%. Broadridge Financial Solutions has a consensus target price of $206.67, suggesting a potential upside of 8.51%. Given Broadridge Financial Solutions' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Global Payments is more favorable than Broadridge Financial Solutions.
Global Payments received 675 more outperform votes than Broadridge Financial Solutions when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.33% of users gave Global Payments an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave Broadridge Financial Solutions an outperform vote.
Global Payments has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Broadridge Financial Solutions has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Payments pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Broadridge Financial Solutions pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Global Payments pays out 19.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Broadridge Financial Solutions pays out 55.7% 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. Broadridge Financial Solutions has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Broadridge Financial Solutions is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Global Payments has higher revenue and earnings than Broadridge Financial Solutions. Global Payments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Broadridge Financial Solutions, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Global Payments had 7 more articles in the media than Broadridge Financial Solutions. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for Global Payments and 24 mentions for Broadridge Financial Solutions. Global Payments' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Broadridge Financial Solutions' score of 0.20 indicating that Broadridge Financial Solutions is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Payments has a net margin of 13.40% compared to Global Payments' net margin of 10.82%. Global Payments' return on equity of 41.12% beat Broadridge Financial Solutions' return on equity.
Summary
Broadridge Financial Solutions beats Global Payments on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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