MAX vs. PSFE, ADV, RPAY, CNDT, VVI, IMXI, LQDT, ACCD, FLYW, and SEZL
Should you be buying MediaAlpha stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MediaAlpha include Paysafe (PSFE), Advantage Solutions (ADV), Repay (RPAY), Conduent (CNDT), Viad (VVI), International Money Express (IMXI), Liquidity Services (LQDT), Accolade (ACCD), Flywire (FLYW), and Sezzle (SEZL). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Paysafe (NYSE:PSFE) and MediaAlpha (NYSE:MAX) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Paysafe has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MediaAlpha has a beta of 1.32, suggesting that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Paysafe has a net margin of -0.82% compared to Paysafe's net margin of -7.76%. MediaAlpha's return on equity of 15.22% beat Paysafe's return on equity.
Paysafe currently has a consensus target price of $22.01, suggesting a potential upside of 21.15%. MediaAlpha has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.76%. Given MediaAlpha's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Paysafe is more favorable than MediaAlpha.
54.4% of Paysafe shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.4% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.5% of MediaAlpha shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Paysafe had 23 more articles in the media than MediaAlpha. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Paysafe and 5 mentions for MediaAlpha. MediaAlpha's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat Paysafe's score of 0.10 indicating that Paysafe is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Paysafe has higher revenue and earnings than MediaAlpha. Paysafe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than MediaAlpha, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MediaAlpha received 2 more outperform votes than Paysafe when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.15% of users gave MediaAlpha an outperform vote while only 42.67% of users gave Paysafe an outperform vote.
Summary
Paysafe beats MediaAlpha on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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