PAGS vs. MARA, EVTC, RAMP, STER, BRZE, CNXC, DLO, SRCL, BCO, and NSP
Should you be buying PagSeguro Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PagSeguro Digital include Marathon Digital (MARA), EVERTEC (EVTC), LiveRamp (RAMP), Sterling Check (STER), Braze (BRZE), Concentrix (CNXC), DLocal (DLO), Stericycle (SRCL), Brink's (BCO), and Insperity (NSP). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Marathon Digital (NASDAQ:MARA) and PagSeguro Digital (NYSE:PAGS) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Marathon Digital presently has a consensus target price of $19.69, indicating a potential upside of 1.21%. PagSeguro Digital has a consensus target price of $15.20, indicating a potential upside of 19.12%. Given Marathon Digital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PagSeguro Digital is more favorable than Marathon Digital.
PagSeguro Digital received 78 more outperform votes than Marathon Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.74% of users gave PagSeguro Digital an outperform vote while only 53.79% of users gave Marathon Digital an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Marathon Digital had 16 more articles in the media than PagSeguro Digital. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Marathon Digital and 4 mentions for PagSeguro Digital. Marathon Digital's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat PagSeguro Digital's score of 0.51 indicating that PagSeguro Digital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Marathon Digital has a beta of 5.38, suggesting that its stock price is 438% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PagSeguro Digital has a beta of 1.82, suggesting that its stock price is 82% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Marathon Digital has a net margin of 106.46% compared to Marathon Digital's net margin of 10.37%. Marathon Digital's return on equity of 13.94% beat PagSeguro Digital's return on equity.
44.5% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.9% of PagSeguro Digital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Marathon Digital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PagSeguro Digital has higher revenue and earnings than Marathon Digital. Marathon Digital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PagSeguro Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
PagSeguro Digital beats Marathon Digital on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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