Contrasting XBP Global (XBP) & The Competition

XBP Global (NASDAQ:XBP) is one of 50 public companies in the “Financial Transaction Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare XBP Global to related companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for XBP Global and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
XBP Global	1	0	0	0	1.00
XBP Global Competitors	520	2757	5732	148	2.60

As a group, “Financial Transaction Services” companies have a potential upside of 31.11%. Given XBP Global’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe XBP Global has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares XBP Global and its peers revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
XBP Global	$142.77 million	-$12.37 million	-2.50
XBP Global Competitors	$4.38 billion	$1.09 billion	19.90

XBP Global’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than XBP Global. XBP Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Risk & Volatility

XBP Global has a beta of -0.37, indicating that its share price is 137% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, XBP Global’s peers have a beta of 1.32, indicating that their average share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares XBP Global and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
XBP Global	N/A	7,889.88%	384.84%
XBP Global Competitors	-55.93%	-6.63%	2.98%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

15.7% of XBP Global shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.9% of shares of all “Financial Transaction Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of XBP Global shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.9% of shares of all “Financial Transaction Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

XBP Global peers beat XBP Global on 10 of the 13 factors compared.

XBP Global Company Profile

XBP Europe Holdings, Inc. provides bills, payments, and related solutions and services in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Bills & Payments and Technology. The Bills & Payments segment focuses on optimizing how bills and payments are processed by businesses of all sizes and industries. This segment also offers automation of accounts payable and accounts receivables processes and seeks to integrate buyers and suppliers, as well as engages in digital transformation business. The Technology segment engages in the sale of recurring software licenses and related maintenance, and hardware solutions, as well as provision of related maintenance and professional services. In addition, the company offers XBP platform that provides a secured network allowing billers, consumers, and businesses to communicate and transact; XBP Omnidirect, a cloud-based platform that provides enterprise level client communication management; and Reaktr.ai for cybersecurity, data modernization and cloud management, and generative AI. Further, it provides request to pay solutions; enterprise information management solutions; robotic process automation solutions; digital mailroom and records digitization solutions; business process management and intelligent workflow automation solutions; integrated communications solution; banking and financial industry solutions and services; cross-border payments; digitization of checks; confirmation of payee; and mortgage and loan management solutions. The company is based in Egham, the United Kingdom. XBP Europe Holdings, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Exela Technologies, Inc.