Head to Head Comparison: Visa (NYSE:V) & Mercurity Fintech (NASDAQ:MFH)

Visa (NYSE:V) and Mercurity Fintech (NASDAQ:MFH) are both business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and earnings.

Profitability

This table compares Visa and Mercurity Fintech’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Visa	50.15%	60.31%	23.46%
Mercurity Fintech	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility and Risk

Visa has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercurity Fintech has a beta of 4.3, indicating that its stock price is 330% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Visa and Mercurity Fintech, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Visa	0	4	19	5	3.04
Mercurity Fintech	1	0	0	0	1.00

Visa currently has a consensus price target of $402.52, suggesting a potential upside of 13.36%. Given Visa’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Visa is more favorable than Mercurity Fintech.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Visa and Mercurity Fintech”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Visa	$40.00 billion	16.17	$20.06 billion	$10.21	34.78
Mercurity Fintech	$956,830.00	412.23	-$4.53 million	N/A	N/A

Visa has higher revenue and earnings than Mercurity Fintech.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

82.2% of Visa shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.8% of Mercurity Fintech shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Visa shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 62.8% of Mercurity Fintech shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Visa beats Mercurity Fintech on 10 of the 13 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 Mercurity Fintech

Mercurity Fintech Holding Inc. operates as a fintech company powered by blockchain. The company provides digital asset trading infrastructure solutions based on internet and blockchain technologies for cryptocurrency traders; and asset digitalization platform, which offers blockchain-based digitalization solutions for traditional assets, such as fiat currencies, bonds, and precious metals. It also offers cryptocurrency mining services that provides computing power to the mining pool; and digital consultation services, such as digital payment solutions, asset management, and online and traditional brokerage services. The company was formerly known as JMU Limited and changed its name to Mercurity Fintech Holding Inc. in April 2020. Mercurity Fintech Holding Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.