Contrasting Waystar (WAY) and Its Competitors

Waystar (NASDAQ:WAY) is one of 94 publicly-traded companies in the “Computer integrated systems design” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Waystar to related companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, dividends and risk.

Profitability

This table compares Waystar and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Waystar	N/A	N/A	N/A
Waystar Competitors	-168.48%	-246.80%	-16.41%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

54.0% of shares of all “Computer integrated systems design” companies are held by institutional investors. 4.1% of Waystar shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of shares of all “Computer integrated systems design” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for Waystar and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Waystar	0	0	12	1	3.08
Waystar Competitors	596	2301	3899	128	2.51

Waystar presently has a consensus price target of $40.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.25%. As a group, “Computer integrated systems design” companies have a potential upside of 22.01%. Given Waystar’s peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Waystar has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Waystar and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Waystar	$975.19 million	-$51.33 million	440.11
Waystar Competitors	$1.86 billion	$24.52 million	13.04

Waystar’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Waystar. Waystar is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Summary

Waystar beats its peers on 7 of the 12 factors compared.

About Waystar

Waystar Holding Corp. is a software company which provide healthcare payments. Waystar Holding Corp. is based in LEHI, Utah.