Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) & UiPath (NYSE:PATH) Financial Contrast

Flywire (NASDAQ:FLYW) and UiPath (NYSE:PATH) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and earnings.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Flywire and UiPath”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Flywire	$492.14 million	3.67	$2.90 million	($0.02)	-740.00
UiPath	$1.43 billion	6.04	-$73.69 million	$0.42	38.44

Flywire has higher earnings, but lower revenue than UiPath. Flywire is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UiPath, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and price targets for Flywire and UiPath, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Flywire	2	10	5	0	2.18
UiPath	1	15	1	0	2.00

Flywire currently has a consensus target price of $14.81, indicating a potential upside of 0.05%. UiPath has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.89%. Given Flywire’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Flywire is more favorable than UiPath.

Risk and Volatility

Flywire has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UiPath has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Flywire and UiPath’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Flywire	-0.42%	0.80%	0.56%
UiPath	14.79%	3.73%	2.42%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

95.9% of Flywire shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 62.5% of UiPath shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Flywire shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.2% of UiPath shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

UiPath beats Flywire on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Flywire

Flywire Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a payments enablement and software company in the United States and internationally. Its payment platform and network, and vertical-specific software help clients to get paid and help their customers to pay. The company’s platform facilitates payment flows across multiple currencies, payment types, and payment options, as well as provides direct connections to alternative payment methods, such as Alipay, Boleto, PayPal/Venmo, and Trustly. It serves education, healthcare, travel, and business to business organizations. The company was formerly known as peerTransfer Corporation and changed its name to Flywire Corporation in December 2016. Flywire Corporation was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

About UiPath

UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform's embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; multi-tenant platform enterprise deployment with security and governance and Automation Cloud, which enables customers to begin automating without the need to provision infrastructure, install applications, or perform additional configurations; intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality; signed to enable people and automations to work together; and tracks, measures, and forecasts the performance of automations, enables customers to gain powerful insights and generate key performance indicators with actionable metric. It serves banking and financial services, healthcare, insurance, public sectors, manufacturing, retail, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.