V vs. MA, ACN, SPGI, FI, FIS, GPN, BR, WEX, MMS, and EXLS
Should you be buying Visa stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Visa include Mastercard (MA), Accenture (ACN), S&P Global (SPGI), Fiserv (FI), Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Global Payments (GPN), Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR), WEX (WEX), Maximus (MMS), and ExlService (EXLS). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Visa (NYSE:V) and Mastercard (NYSE:MA) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking and valuation.
Visa currently has a consensus price target of $303.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.31%. Mastercard has a consensus price target of $496.27, indicating a potential upside of 9.08%. Given Visa's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Visa is more favorable than Mastercard.
In the previous week, Mastercard had 31 more articles in the media than Visa. MarketBeat recorded 72 mentions for Mastercard and 41 mentions for Visa. Visa's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Mastercard's score of 0.36 indicating that Visa is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Visa received 832 more outperform votes than Mastercard when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.26% of users gave Visa an outperform vote while only 72.59% of users gave Mastercard an outperform vote.
Visa has a net margin of 53.87% compared to Mastercard's net margin of 46.09%. Mastercard's return on equity of 183.70% beat Visa's return on equity.
82.2% of Visa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.3% of Mastercard shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Visa shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Mastercard shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Visa has higher revenue and earnings than Mastercard. Visa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mastercard, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Visa has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mastercard has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Visa pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Mastercard pays an annual dividend of $2.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Visa pays out 23.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mastercard pays out 21.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Mastercard beats Visa on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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