EVTC vs. RAMP, STER, GB, TIXT, YEXT, PGRU, PAGS, MARA, PAY, and WNS
Should you be buying EVERTEC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EVERTEC include LiveRamp (RAMP), Sterling Check (STER), Global Blue Group (GB), TELUS International (Cda) (TIXT), Yext (YEXT), PropertyGuru Group (PGRU), PagSeguro Digital (PAGS), Marathon Digital (MARA), Paymentus (PAY), and WNS (WNS). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
LiveRamp (NYSE:RAMP) and EVERTEC (NYSE:EVTC) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
LiveRamp has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, EVERTEC has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, LiveRamp had 7 more articles in the media than EVERTEC. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for LiveRamp and 2 mentions for EVERTEC. LiveRamp's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat EVERTEC's score of 0.50 indicating that EVERTEC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LiveRamp currently has a consensus target price of $47.75, suggesting a potential upside of 44.00%. EVERTEC has a consensus target price of $41.33, suggesting a potential upside of 10.46%. Given EVERTEC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe LiveRamp is more favorable than EVERTEC.
EVERTEC has higher revenue and earnings than LiveRamp. LiveRamp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EVERTEC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EVERTEC received 133 more outperform votes than LiveRamp when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.35% of users gave LiveRamp an outperform vote while only 59.49% of users gave EVERTEC an outperform vote.
EVERTEC has a net margin of 8.87% compared to EVERTEC's net margin of -2.22%. LiveRamp's return on equity of 29.86% beat EVERTEC's return on equity.
93.8% of LiveRamp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by institutional investors. 2.9% of LiveRamp shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of EVERTEC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
EVERTEC beats LiveRamp on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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