Nuvei (NASDAQ:NVEI – Get Rating) and Fair Isaac (NYSE:FICO – Get Rating) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
29.0% of Nuvei shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.0% of Fair Isaac shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Fair Isaac shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Nuvei and Fair Isaac, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score |
| Nuvei | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 2.71 |
| Fair Isaac | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2.75 |
Nuvei currently has a consensus price target of $66.92, suggesting a potential upside of 143.51%. Fair Isaac has a consensus price target of $546.40, suggesting a potential upside of 28.61%. Given Nuvei's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nuvei is more favorable than Fair Isaac.
Earnings & Valuation
This table compares Nuvei and Fair Isaac's gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio |
| Nuvei | $724.53 million | 5.36 | $102.29 million | $0.51 | 53.88 |
| Fair Isaac | $1.32 billion | 8.15 | $392.08 million | $13.65 | 31.12 |
Fair Isaac has higher revenue and earnings than Nuvei. Fair Isaac is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Nuvei, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Nuvei and Fair Isaac's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets |
| Nuvei | 9.08% | 9.12% | 5.15% |
| Fair Isaac | 27.04% | -67.14% | 24.28% |
Summary
Fair Isaac beats Nuvei on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Nuvei
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Nuvei Corporation provides payment technology solutions to merchants and partners in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. It provides a suite of payment solutions to support lifecycle of a transaction across mobile or in-app, online, unattended, and in-store channels. The company sells and distributes its solutions through direct sales, indirect sales for small-and-medium sized businesses, and eCommerce resellers. Nuvei Corporation was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
About Fair Isaac
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Fair Isaac Corporation develops analytic, software, and data management products and services that enable businesses to automate, enhance, and connect decisions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments, Scores and Software. The Software segment offers pre-configured decision management solution designed for various business problems or processes, such as marketing, account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, financial crimes compliance, collection, and marketing, as well as associated professional services. This segment also provides FICO Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytic and decision use cases, as well as stand-alone analytic and decisioning software that can be configured by customers to address a wide range of business use cases. The Scores segment provides business-to-business scoring solutions and services for consumers that give clients access to analytics to be integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes, as well as business-to-consumer scoring solutions comprising myFICO.com subscription offerings. Fair Isaac Corporation markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales organization and indirect channels, as well as online. The company was formerly known as Fair Isaac & Company, Inc. and changed its name to Fair Isaac Corporation in July 1992. Fair Isaac Corporation was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.
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