RKT vs. GPN, APP, EFX, SYM, IT, VLTO, BR, KSPI, VRSK, and APTV
Should you be buying Rocket Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rocket Companies include Global Payments (GPN), AppLovin (APP), Equifax (EFX), Symbotic (SYM), Gartner (IT), Veralto (VLTO), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), Joint Stock Company Kaspi.kz (KSPI), Verisk Analytics (VRSK), and Aptiv (APTV). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Global Payments (NYSE:GPN) and Rocket Companies (NYSE:RKT) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment and earnings.
Global Payments has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rocket Companies has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Global Payments has higher revenue and earnings than Rocket Companies. Global Payments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rocket Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Global Payments had 6 more articles in the media than Rocket Companies. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Global Payments and 5 mentions for Rocket Companies. Global Payments' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Rocket Companies' score of 0.63 indicating that Rocket Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Global Payments presently has a consensus price target of $149.11, indicating a potential upside of 36.60%. Rocket Companies has a consensus price target of $10.60, indicating a potential downside of 24.96%. Given Rocket Companies' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Global Payments is more favorable than Rocket Companies.
89.8% of Global Payments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.6% of Rocket Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Global Payments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 94.1% of Rocket Companies 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 received 674 more outperform votes than Rocket Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.30% of users gave Global Payments an outperform vote while only 66.33% of users gave Rocket Companies an outperform vote.
Global Payments has a net margin of 13.40% compared to Global Payments' net margin of 0.43%. Rocket Companies' return on equity of 11.72% beat Global Payments' return on equity.
Summary
Global Payments beats Rocket Companies on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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