KD vs. AUR, PSN, EXPO, EXLS, WU, DNB, NVEI, FOUR, MMS, and SRCL
Should you be buying Kyndryl stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kyndryl include Aurora Innovation (AUR), Parsons (PSN), Exponent (EXPO), ExlService (EXLS), Western Union (WU), Dun & Bradstreet (DNB), Nuvei (NVEI), Shift4 Payments (FOUR), Maximus (MMS), and Stericycle (SRCL). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Kyndryl (NYSE:KD) and Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
Kyndryl presently has a consensus price target of $28.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.63%. Aurora Innovation has a consensus price target of $3.75, indicating a potential upside of 36.86%. Given Aurora Innovation's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Aurora Innovation is more favorable than Kyndryl.
71.5% of Kyndryl shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.7% of Aurora Innovation shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Kyndryl shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Aurora Innovation shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Kyndryl has a beta of 1.57, indicating that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Aurora Innovation has a beta of 2.85, indicating that its share price is 185% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kyndryl has higher revenue and earnings than Aurora Innovation. Kyndryl is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aurora Innovation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Kyndryl received 1 more outperform votes than Aurora Innovation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.18% of users gave Kyndryl an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Aurora Innovation an outperform vote.
Aurora Innovation has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Kyndryl's net margin of -2.12%. Kyndryl's return on equity of -4.01% beat Aurora Innovation's return on equity.
In the previous week, Kyndryl had 4 more articles in the media than Aurora Innovation. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Kyndryl and 10 mentions for Aurora Innovation. Aurora Innovation's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Kyndryl's score of 0.59 indicating that Aurora Innovation is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Kyndryl beats Aurora Innovation on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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