Head to Head Contrast: NCR Atleos (NATL) versus Its Peers

NCR Atleos (NYSE:NATL) is one of 347 publicly-traded companies in the “Financial Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its rivals? We will compare NCR Atleos to similar companies based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.

Risk & Volatility

NCR Atleos has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NCR Atleos’ rivals have a beta of 2.25, suggesting that their average share price is 125% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for NCR Atleos and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NCR Atleos	0	4	1	0	2.20
NCR Atleos Competitors	1905	6789	11477	414	2.51

NCR Atleos currently has a consensus price target of $50.27, suggesting a potential upside of 9.23%. As a group, “Financial Services” companies have a potential upside of 4.46%. Given NCR Atleos’ higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe NCR Atleos is more favorable than its rivals.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares NCR Atleos and its rivals revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
NCR Atleos	$4.35 billion	$162.00 million	17.84
NCR Atleos Competitors	$23.93 billion	$1.05 billion	11.72

NCR Atleos’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than NCR Atleos. NCR Atleos is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares NCR Atleos and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NCR Atleos	4.44%	83.41%	5.87%
NCR Atleos Competitors	-405.47%	-23.13%	-6.41%

Institutional and Insider Ownership

88.7% of NCR Atleos shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.6% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of NCR Atleos shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.5% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

NCR Atleos rivals beat NCR Atleos on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

NCR Atleos Company Profile

NCR Atleos Corporation operates as a financial technology company in the United States, rest of the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates through three segments: Self-Service Banking, Network, and Telecommunications & Technology (T&T). The Self-Service Banking segment offers solutions, including a line of automated teller machine (ATM) and interactive teller machine (ITM) hardware and software, as well as related installation, maintenance, and managed and professional services; and solutions to manage and run the ATM channel end-to-end for financial institutions comprising back office, cash management, software management and ATM deployment, and others. The Network segment provides a network of ATMs and multi-functioning financial services kiosks for financial institutions, fintechs, neobanks, and retailers; Allpoint network for credit unions, banks, digital banks, fintechs, stored-value debit card issuers, and other consumer financial services providers; ReadyCode to convert a digital value to cash or cash to a digital value; ATM branding solutions to financial institutions; ATM management and services to retailers and other businesses; and engages in the buying and selling of Bitcoins. The T&T segment offers managed network and infrastructure services to enterprise clients across various industries through communications service providers and technology manufacturers; and professional, field, and remote services for modern network technologies, including software-defined wide area networking, network functions virtualization, wireless local area networks, optical networking, and edge networks. NCR Atleos Corporation is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.