Visa (NYSE:V – Get Free Report) and Getty Images (NYSE:GETY – Get Free Report) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Visa and Getty Images’ revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
Visa | $32.65 billion | 15.62 | $17.27 billion | $8.69 | 31.96 |
Getty Images | $916.56 million | 1.77 | $19.34 million | $0.04 | 99.88 |
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.
Risk & Volatility
Profitability
This table compares Visa and Getty Images’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
Visa | 53.92% | 50.02% | 20.83% |
Getty Images | 2.11% | 9.30% | 2.34% |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
82.2% of Visa shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.8% of Getty Images shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Visa shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.0% of Getty Images shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Visa and Getty Images, as provided by MarketBeat.com.
Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
Visa | 0 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 2.77 |
Getty Images | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2.57 |
Visa currently has a consensus target price of $295.82, suggesting a potential upside of 6.50%. Getty Images has a consensus target price of $6.35, suggesting a potential upside of 58.95%. Given Getty Images’ higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Getty Images is more favorable than Visa.
Summary
Visa beats Getty Images on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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.
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.
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