Everi Holdings (NYSE: EVRI) and Vantiv (NYSE:VNTV) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Everi Holdings and Vantiv, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Everi Holdings | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Vantiv | 0 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 2.68 |
Everi Holdings currently has a consensus target price of $7.00, suggesting a potential downside of 9.21%. Vantiv has a consensus target price of $71.57, suggesting a potential upside of 1.58%. Given Vantiv’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vantiv is more favorable than Everi Holdings.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
73.5% of Everi Holdings shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.9% of Vantiv shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of Everi Holdings shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of Vantiv shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Valuation & Earnings
This table compares Everi Holdings and Vantiv’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | EBITDA | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Everi Holdings | $919.45 million | 0.56 | $200.09 million | ($3.75) | -2.06 |
| Vantiv | $3.80 billion | 2.99 | $880.01 million | $1.29 | 54.61 |
Vantiv has higher revenue and earnings than Everi Holdings. Everi Holdings is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Vantiv, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Profitability
This table compares Everi Holdings and Vantiv’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Everi Holdings | -26.95% | -16,159.62% | -16.89% |
| Vantiv | 5.58% | 33.54% | 8.00% |
Volatility and Risk
Everi Holdings has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Vantiv has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Vantiv beats Everi Holdings on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
Everi Holdings Company Profile
Everi Holdings Inc. is a holding company. The Company operates through subsidiaries, including Everi Games Holding Inc. (Everi Games Holding) and Everi Payments Inc. (Everi Payments or Payments). The Company operates through two segments: Games and Payments. The Company provides video and mechanical reel gaming content and technology solutions, integrated gaming payments solutions, and compliance and efficiency software. Its games segment provides solutions directly to gaming establishments to offer its patrons gaming entertainment related experiences. The Payments segment provides solutions directly to gaming establishments to offer their patrons cash access related services and products, including access to cash at gaming facilities through automatic teller machine (ATM) cash withdrawals, credit card cash access transactions and point of sale debit card transactions.
Vantiv Company Profile
Vantiv, Inc. is a holding company. The Company conducts its operations through its subsidiary, Vantiv Holding, LLC. The Company is a payment processor. The Company’s segments include Merchant Services and Financial Institution Services. The Company offers a range of payment processing services that enable its clients to meet their payment processing needs through a single provider. The Company enables merchants to accept and process credit, debit and prepaid payments, and provide them supporting value-added services, such as security solutions and fraud management, information solutions and interchange management. It also provides payment services to financial institutions, such as card issuer processing, payment network processing, fraud protection, card production, prepaid program management, automated teller machine (ATM) driving and network gateway and switching services that utilize the Company’s Jeanie personal identification number (PIN) debit payment network.
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