Getty Images (NYSE:GETY) and Visa (NYSE:V) Head to Head Survey

Getty Images (NYSE:GETY) and Visa (NYSE:V) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.

Profitability

This table compares Getty Images and Visa’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Getty Images	2.11%	9.30%	2.34%
Visa	53.92%	50.02%	20.83%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Getty Images and Visa’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Getty Images	$916.55 million	1.74	$19.34 million	$0.04	98.63
Visa	$33.35 billion	15.11	$17.27 billion	$8.69	31.58

Visa has higher revenue and earnings than Getty Images. Visa is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Getty Images, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

45.8% of Getty Images shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.2% of Visa shares are held by institutional investors. 13.0% of Getty Images shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Visa shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Getty Images and Visa, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Getty Images	0	3	4	0	2.57
Visa	0	5	17	0	2.77

Getty Images currently has a consensus price target of $6.35, suggesting a potential upside of 60.96%. Visa has a consensus price target of $295.82, suggesting a potential upside of 7.81%. Given Getty Images’ higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Getty Images is more favorable than Visa.

Volatility & Risk

Getty Images has a beta of 2.12, meaning that its share price is 112% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Visa has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Visa beats Getty Images on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Getty Images

Getty Images Holdings, Inc. offers creative and editorial visual content solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Its products include Getty Images that offers creative and editorial content including stills, music and video which focuses on corporate, agency, and media customers; iStock.com, an e-commerce offering where customers have access to creative stills and video; Unsplash.com, a platform offering free stock photo downloads and paid subscriptions targeted to the high-growth prosumer and semi-professional creator segments; and Unsplash+ that provides access to unique model released content with expanded legal protections. In addition, it maintains privately-owned photographic archives covering news, sport, and entertainment, as well as variety of subjects, including lifestyle, business, science, health, wellness, beauty, sports, transportation, and travel. Further, the company provides music licensing, and digital asset management and distribution services. It serves media outlets, advertising agencies and corporations, individual creators, and prosumers. The company was formerly known as Getty Images, Inc. Getty Images Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

About Visa

Visa Inc. operates as a payment technology company in the United States and internationally. The company operates VisaNet, a transaction processing network that enables authorization, clearing, and settlement of payment transactions. It also offers credit, debit, and prepaid card products; tap to pay, tokenization, and click to pay services; Visa Direct, a solution that facilitates the delivery of funds to eligible cards, deposit accounts, and digital wallets; Visa B2B Connect, a multilateral business-to-business cross-border payments network; Visa Cross-Border Solution, a cross-border consumer payments solution; and Visa DPS that provides a range of value-added services, including fraud mitigation, dispute management, data analytics, campaign management, a suite of digital solutions, and contact center services. The company also provides acceptance solutions, which include Cybersource that provides modular and value-added services for connecting merchants to payment processing; risk and identity solutions, such as Visa Advanced Authorization, Visa Secure, Visa Risk and Decision Manager, Visa Consumer Authentication Service, and payment-decisioning solutions for fraud prevention; and Visa Consulting and Analytics, a payment consulting advisory services. It provides its services under the Visa, Visa Electron, Interlink, V PAY, and PLUS brand names. The company serves merchants, financial institutions, and government entities. Visa Inc. was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.