Critical Review: NCR Voyix (VYX) and Its Peers

NCR Voyix (NYSE:VYX) is one of 955 publicly-traded companies in the “Software” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare NCR Voyix to related companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

97.0% of NCR Voyix shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of NCR Voyix shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.7% of shares of all “Software” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Volatility & Risk

NCR Voyix has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NCR Voyix’s rivals have a beta of 1.15, meaning that their average stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares NCR Voyix and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NCR Voyix	2.53%	11.23%	2.61%
NCR Voyix Competitors	-630.58%	17.61%	-8.96%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for NCR Voyix and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NCR Voyix	0	3	3	0	2.50
NCR Voyix Competitors	5708	21434	44645	1489	2.57

NCR Voyix currently has a consensus target price of $12.20, suggesting a potential upside of 53.36%. As a group, “Software” companies have a potential upside of 25.72%. Given NCR Voyix’s higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe NCR Voyix is more favorable than its rivals.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares NCR Voyix and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NCR Voyix	$2.54 billion	$62.00 million	19.89
NCR Voyix Competitors	$1.87 billion	$383.51 million	112.47

NCR Voyix has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its rivals. NCR Voyix is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Summary

NCR Voyix rivals beat NCR Voyix on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

NCR Voyix Company Profile

NCR Voyix Corporation provides various software and services in the United States, the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The company operates through three segments: Retail; Restaurants; and Digital Banking. It offers software, services, and hardware; and digital banking solutions for financial institution’s consumer and business customers. The company provides solutions for banking channel services, transaction processing, imaging, and branch services. In addition, it offers solutions for retail industry comprising comprehensive API-point of sale (POS) retail software platforms and applications, hardware terminals and peripherals, payment processing solutions, and consumer engagement solutions, as well as self-service kiosks, which consists of self-checkout (SCO). Further, the company provides technology solutions to customers in the restaurant industry comprising table-service, quick-service, and fast casual restaurants. Additionally, it offers cloud-based and platform-enabled software applications for point-of-sale, back office, payment processing, kitchen production, restaurant management, eCommerce, mobile ordering, and consumer marketing and loyalty; and restaurant -oriented hardware products, such as POS terminals, kitchen display systems, handheld devices, printers, and peripherals. It also offers solutions for customer account opening and onboarding across digital, branch, and call center channels. The company serves grocery stores, drug stores, and box retailers; and quick service, table service and fast casual restaurants of all sizes, small-and-medium sized businesses to large multi-national, and enterprise clients. The company was formerly known as NCR Corporation and changed its name to NCR Voyix Corporation in October 2023. NCR Voyix Corporation was incorporated in 1884 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.