Payoneer Global (NASDAQ:PAYO – Get Free Report) and Green Dot (NYSE:GDOT – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and risk.
Profitability
This table compares Payoneer Global and Green Dot’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Payoneer Global | 6.96% | 10.71% | 1.01% |
| Green Dot | -2.33% | 9.81% | 1.59% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Payoneer Global and Green Dot, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Payoneer Global | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2.88 |
| Green Dot | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1.86 |
Institutional & Insider Ownership
82.2% of Payoneer Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.6% of Green Dot shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Payoneer Global shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Green Dot shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Payoneer Global and Green Dot”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Payoneer Global | $977.72 million | 2.33 | $121.16 million | $0.19 | 33.68 |
| Green Dot | $1.72 billion | 0.39 | -$26.70 million | ($0.85) | -14.42 |
Payoneer Global has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Green Dot. Green Dot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Payoneer Global, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Risk and Volatility
Payoneer Global has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Green Dot has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Payoneer Global beats Green Dot on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Payoneer Global
Payoneer Global Inc. operates as a financial technology company. It operates a payment infrastructure platform that provides customers with a one-stop, global, multi-currency account to serve their accounts receivable and accounts payable needs. The company delivers a suite of services that includes cross-border payments, physical and virtual MasterCard cards, working capital, risk management, and other services. It also offers various payment options with minimal integration required, full back-office functions, and customer support offered. The company's platform delivers bank-grade security, stability, and redundancy. It serves customers, such as small and medium-sized businesses in approximately 190 countries and territories worldwide. Payoneer Global Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
About Green Dot
Green Dot Corporation, a financial technology and registered bank holding company, provides various financial services to consumers and businesses in the United States. It operates through three segments: Consumer Services, Business to Business Services, and Money Movement Services. The company provides deposit account programs, including consumer and small business checking account products, network-branded reloadable prepaid debit cards and gift cards, and secured credit programs. It offers money processing services, such as cash transfer services that enable consumers to deposit or pick up cash and pay bills with cash at the point-of-sale at any participating retailer; and simply paid disbursement services, which enable wages and authorized funds disbursement to its deposit account programs and accounts issued by any third-party bank or program manager. In addition, the company offers tax processing services comprising tax refund transfers, which provide the processing technology to facilitate receipt of a taxpayers' refund proceeds; small business lending to independent tax preparation providers that seek small advances; and fast cash advance, a loan that enables tax refund recipients. Green Dot Corporation was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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