Reviewing Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT) & Top KingWin (NASDAQ:WAI)

Euronet Worldwide (NASDAQ:EEFT) and Top KingWin (NASDAQ:WAI) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Euronet Worldwide and Top KingWin, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Euronet Worldwide	1	2	5	0	2.50
Top KingWin	1	0	0	0	1.00

Euronet Worldwide currently has a consensus target price of $117.60, indicating a potential upside of 58.94%. Given Euronet Worldwide’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Euronet Worldwide is more favorable than Top KingWin.

Volatility & Risk

Euronet Worldwide has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Top KingWin has a beta of 2.43, meaning that its share price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Euronet Worldwide and Top KingWin’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Euronet Worldwide	7.27%	27.63%	5.78%
Top KingWin	N/A	N/A	N/A

Institutional and Insider Ownership

91.6% of Euronet Worldwide shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.4% of Top KingWin shares are held by institutional investors. 11.2% of Euronet Worldwide shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Euronet Worldwide and Top KingWin”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Euronet Worldwide	$3.99 billion	0.78	$306.00 million	$6.83	10.83
Top KingWin	$3.75 million	0.95	-$8.15 million	N/A	N/A

Euronet Worldwide has higher revenue and earnings than Top KingWin.

Summary

Euronet Worldwide beats Top KingWin on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Euronet Worldwide

Euronet Worldwide, Inc. provides payment and transaction processing and distribution solutions to financial institutions, retailers, service providers, and individual consumers worldwide. It operates through three segments: Electronic Fund Transfer Processing, epay, and Money Transfer. The Electronic Fund Transfer Processing segment provides electronic payment solutions, including automated teller machine (ATM) cash withdrawal and deposit services, ATM network participation, outsourced ATM and point-of-sale (POS) management solutions, credit and debit and prepaid card outsourcing, card issuing, and merchant acquiring services. It also offers ATM and POS currency conversion, ATM surcharge, advertising, customer relationship management, mobile top-up, bill payment, fraud management, foreign remittance and cardless payout, banknote recycling, and tax-refund services; and integrated electronic financial transaction software solutions for electronic payment and transaction delivery systems. The epay segment distributes and processes prepaid mobile airtime and other electronic payment products; and provides payment processing services for various prepaid products, cards, and services, as well as vouchers and physical gift fulfillment, and gift card distribution and processing services. This segment operates a network of approximately 821,000 POS terminals. The Money Transfer segment offers consumer-to-consumer and account-to-account money transfer, customers bill payment, check cashing, foreign currency exchange, mobile top-up, and cash management and foreign currency risk management services, as well as payment alternatives, such as money orders and prepaid debit cards. The company was formerly known as Euronet Services, Inc. and changed its name to Euronet Worldwide, Inc. in August 2001. Euronet Worldwide, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas.

About Top KingWin

Top KingWin Ltd is a provider of capital market related education and support services, as well as advisory and transaction services principally in China. Top KingWin Ltd is based in GUANGZHOU, China.