Reviewing Flywire (FLYW) and Its Rivals

Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) is one of 342 publicly-traded companies in the “Financial Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Flywire to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk and dividends.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Flywire and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Flywire	0	8	7	0	2.47
Flywire Competitors	1965	6862	11606	443	2.50

Flywire presently has a consensus target price of $20.46, indicating a potential upside of 6.07%. As a group, “Financial Services” companies have a potential downside of 1.52%. Given Flywire’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Flywire is more favorable than its competitors.

Volatility and Risk

Flywire has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Flywire’s competitors have a beta of 2.49, suggesting that their average share price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Flywire and its competitors revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Flywire	$713.54 million	$13.50 million	74.19
Flywire Competitors	$24.87 billion	$1.08 billion	8.42

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

Profitability

This table compares Flywire and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Flywire	4.77%	4.08%	2.81%
Flywire Competitors	-409.63%	-16.14%	-6.10%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

95.9% of Flywire shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.2% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 5.0% of Flywire shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 22.1% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Flywire competitors beat Flywire on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

Flywire Company Profile

Flywire Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a payments enablement and software company in the United States and internationally. Its payment platform and network, and vertical-specific software help clients to get paid and help their customers to pay. The company’s platform facilitates payment flows across multiple currencies, payment types, and payment options, as well as provides direct connections to alternative payment methods, such as Alipay, Boleto, PayPal/Venmo, and Trustly. It serves education, healthcare, travel, and business to business organizations. The company was formerly known as peerTransfer Corporation and changed its name to Flywire Corporation in December 2016. Flywire Corporation was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.