WNS vs. PAYO, FA, FLYW, PAY, ADV, MAX, RPAY, PSFE, VVI, and IMXI
Should you be buying WNS stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WNS include Payoneer Global (PAYO), First Advantage (FA), Flywire (FLYW), Paymentus (PAY), Advantage Solutions (ADV), MediaAlpha (MAX), Repay (RPAY), Paysafe (PSFE), Viad (VVI), and International Money Express (IMXI). These companies are all part of the "business services, not elsewhere classified" industry.
WNS (NYSE:WNS) and Payoneer Global (NASDAQ:PAYO) are both mid-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment and dividends.
Payoneer Global has a net margin of 11.23% compared to WNS's net margin of 10.59%. WNS's return on equity of 22.23% beat Payoneer Global's return on equity.
WNS has higher revenue and earnings than Payoneer Global. WNS is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Payoneer Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WNS currently has a consensus price target of $72.44, indicating a potential upside of 49.62%. Payoneer Global has a consensus price target of $6.71, indicating a potential upside of 14.38%. Given WNS's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe WNS is more favorable than Payoneer Global.
In the previous week, Payoneer Global had 6 more articles in the media than WNS. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Payoneer Global and 8 mentions for WNS. Payoneer Global's average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat WNS's score of 0.34 indicating that Payoneer Global is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
97.4% of WNS shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Payoneer Global shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of WNS shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of Payoneer Global shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
WNS received 482 more outperform votes than Payoneer Global when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.45% of users gave WNS an outperform vote while only 67.92% of users gave Payoneer Global an outperform vote.
Summary
WNS beats Payoneer Global on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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