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Recession risks are fading, business economists say, but political tensions pose threat to economy
Biden's campaign joins TikTok, even as administration warns of national security concerns with app
S&P 500   5,026.61
DOW   38,671.69
QQQ   437.05
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Business Services Stocks List

This page shows information about the 50 largest business services stocks including Visa, Mastercard, Accenture, and S&P Global. Learn more about business services stocks.

Visa logo

#1 - Visa

NYSE:V
Stock Price: $276.43 (+$0.65)
Market Cap: $507.67 billion
P/E Ratio: 31.8
Dividend Yield: 0.75%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (16 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $290.55 (5.1% Upside)
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.
Mastercard logo

#2 - Mastercard

NYSE:MA
Stock Price: $457.88 (-$0.38)
Market Cap: $429.39 billion
P/E Ratio: 38.7
Dividend Yield: 0.58%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (20 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $471.85 (3.1% Upside)
Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. It facilitates the processing of payment transactions, including authorization, clearing, and settlement, as well as delivers other payment-related products and services. The company offers integrated products and value-added services for account holders, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, governments, and other organizations, such as programs that enable issuers to provide consumers with credits to defer payments; payment products and solutions that allow its customers to access funds in deposit and other accounts; prepaid programs services; and commercial credit, debit, and prepaid payment products and solutions. It also provides value-added products and services comprising cyber and intelligence solutions for parties to transact, as well as proprietary insights, drawing on principled use of consumer, and merchant data services. In addition, the company offers analytics, test and learn, consulting, managed services, loyalty, processing, and payment gateway solutions for e-commerce merchants. Further, it provides open banking and digital identity platforms services. The company offers payment solutions and services under the MasterCard, Maestro, and Cirrus. Mastercard Incorporated was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.
Accenture logo

#3 - Accenture

NYSE:ACN
Stock Price: $371.67 (+$3.19)
Market Cap: $233.15 billion
P/E Ratio: 34.4
Dividend Yield: 1.39%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (12 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $361.63 (-2.7% Upside)
Accenture plc, a professional services company, provides strategy and consulting, industry X, song, and technology and operation services worldwide. The company offers application services, including agile transformation, DevOps, application modernization, enterprise architecture, software and quality engineering, data management; intelligent automation comprising robotic process automation, natural language processing, and virtual agents; and application management services, as well as software engineering services; strategy and consulting services; data and analytics strategy, data discovery and augmentation, data management and beyond, data democratization, and industrialized solutions comprising turnkey analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions; metaverse; and sustainability services. It also provides change management, HR transformation and delivery, organization strategy and design, talent strategy and development, and leadership and culture services; digital commerce; infrastructure services, including cloud infrastructure managed, cloud and data center, network, digital workplace, database platforms, service management, and cloud and infrastructure security services; data-enabled operating models; technology consulting and AI services; and technology consulting services. In addition, the company offers engineering and R&D digitization, smart connected products, product as-a-service enablement, capital projects, intelligent asset management, digital industrial workforce, and autonomous robotic systems; business process outsourcing; and services related to technology innovation. Further, it provides cloud, ecosystem, marketing, security, supply chain management, zero-based transformation, customer experience, finance consulting, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainability services. The company has a collaboration with Salesforce, Inc. to develop Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
S&P Global logo

#4 - S&P Global

NYSE:SPGI
Stock Price: $437.89 (+$1.26)
Market Cap: $138.72 billion
P/E Ratio: 53.2
Dividend Yield: 0.82%
Consensus Rating: Buy (9 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $446.25 (1.9% Upside)
S&P Global Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics, and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity, and automotive markets. It operates through six segments: S&P Global Ratings, S&P Dow Jones Indices, S&P Global Commodity Insights, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Mobility, and S&P Global Engineering Solutions. The S&P Global Ratings segment operates as an independent provider of credit ratings, research, and analytics, offering investors and other market participants information, ratings, and benchmarks. The S&P Dow Jones Indices segment is an index provider that maintains various valuation and index benchmarks for investment advisors, wealth managers, and institutional investors. The S&P Global Commodity Insights segment provides information and benchmark prices for the commodity and energy markets. The S&P Global Market Intelligence segment offers multi-asset-class data and analytics integrated with purpose-built workflow solutions. This segment offers Desktop, a product suite that provides data, analytics, and third-party research; Data and Advisory Solutions for research, reference data, market data, derived analytics, and valuation services; Enterprise Solutions, software and workflow solutions; and Credit & Risk Solutions for selling Ratings' credit ratings and related data and research. The S&P Global Mobility segment provides solutions serving the full automotive value chain, including vehicle manufacturers (OEMs), automotive suppliers, mobility service providers, retailers, consumers, and finance and insurance companies. The S&P Global Engineering Solutions segment offers engineering standards and related technical knowledge, including product design to provide information and insight to design products, optimize engineering projects and outcomes, solve technical problems, and address complex supply chain issues. S&P Global Inc. was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
ARM logo

#5 - ARM

NASDAQ:ARM
Stock Price: $115.21 (+1.32)
Market Cap: $118.12 billion
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (14 Buy Ratings, 9 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: N/A
Arm Holdings plc architects, develops, and licenses central processing unit products and related technologies for semiconductor companies and original equipment manufacturers rely on to develop products. It offers microprocessors, systems intellectual property (IPs), graphics processing units, physical IP and associated systems IPs, software, tools, and other related services. Its products are used in various markets, such as automotive, computing infrastructure, consumer technologies, and Internet of things. The company operates in the United States, the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, South Korea, and internationally. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom. Arm Holdings plc operates as a subsidiary of Kronos II LLC.
Automatic Data Processing logo

#6 - Automatic Data Processing

NASDAQ:ADP
Stock Price: $249.99 (-$1.09)
Market Cap: $102.69 billion
P/E Ratio: 29.1
Dividend Yield: 2.24%
Consensus Rating: Hold (2 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $253.17 (1.3% Upside)
Automatic Data Processing, Inc. provides cloud-based human capital management solutions worldwide. It operates in two segments, Employer Services and Professional Employer Organization (PEO). The Employer Services segment offers strategic, cloud-based platforms, and human resources (HR) outsourcing solutions. Its offerings include payroll services, benefits administration, talent management, HR management, workforce management, insurance, retirement, and compliance services, as well as integrated HCM solutions. The PEO Services segment provides HR outsourcing solution to businesses through a co-employment model. This segment offers employee benefits, protection and compliance, talent engagement, expertise, comprehensive outsourcing, and recruitment process outsourcing services. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey.
Fiserv logo

#7 - Fiserv

NYSE:FI
Stock Price: $144.23 (+$0.68)
Market Cap: $86.57 billion
P/E Ratio: 28.8
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (15 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $152.39 (5.7% Upside)
Fiserv, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides payment and financial services technology worldwide. The company operates through Acceptance, Fintech, and Payments segments. The Acceptance segment provides point-of-sale merchant acquiring and digital commerce services; mobile payment services; security and fraud protection products; Carat, an omnichannel commerce solution; Clover, a cloud-based point-of-sale and business management platform; and Clover Connect, an independent software vendors platform. This segment distributes through various channels, including direct sales teams, strategic partnerships with agent sales forces, independent software vendors, financial institutions, and other strategic partners. The Fintech segment offers customer deposit and loan accounts, as well as manages an institution's general ledger and central information files. This segment also provides digital banking, financial and risk management, professional services and consulting, item processing and source capture, and other products and services. The Payments segment offers card transactions, such as debit, credit, and prepaid card processing and services; security and fraud protection products; card production; print services; and various network services, as well as non-card digital payment software and services, including bill payment, account-to-account transfers, person-to-person payments, electronic billing, and security and fraud protection products. It serves business, banks, credit unions, other financial institutions, merchants, and corporate clients. Fiserv, Inc. was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Waste Management logo

#8 - Waste Management

NYSE:WM
Stock Price: $188.86 (-$0.63)
Market Cap: $76.07 billion
P/E Ratio: 33.4
Dividend Yield: 1.48%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (9 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $183.62 (-2.8% Upside)
Waste Management, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of environmental solutions to residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services, including picking up and transporting waste and recyclable materials from where it was generated to a transfer station, material recovery facility (MRF), or disposal site; and owns and operates transfer stations, as well as owns, develops, and operates landfill facilities that produce landfill gas used as renewable natural gas for generating electricity. As of December 31, 2022, the company owned or operated 254 solid waste landfills, five secure hazardous waste landfills, 97 MRFs, and 337 transfer stations. It also provides materials processing and commodities recycling services at its MRFs, where cardboard, paper, glass, metals, plastics, construction and demolition materials, and other recycling commodities are recovered for resale or redirected for other purposes; recycling brokerage services, such as managing the marketing of recyclable materials for third parties; and other strategic business solutions. In addition, the company offers construction and remediation services; services related with the disposal of fly ash, and residue generated from the combustion of coal and other fuel stocks; in-plant services comprising full-service waste management solutions and consulting services; and specialized disposal services for oil and gas exploration and production operations. The company was formerly known as USA Waste Services, Inc. and changed its name to Waste Management, Inc. in 1998. Waste Management, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Thomson Reuters logo

#9 - Thomson Reuters

NYSE:TRI
Stock Price: $158.63 (+$2.70)
Market Cap: $71.85 billion
P/E Ratio: 27.2
Dividend Yield: 1.24%
Consensus Rating: Hold (3 Buy Ratings, 10 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $149.23 (-5.9% Upside)
Thomson Reuters Corporation engages in the provision of business information services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates in five segments: Legal Professionals, Corporates, Tax & Accounting Professionals, Reuters News, and Global Print. The Legal Professionals segment offers research and workflow products focusing on legal research and integrated legal workflow solutions that combine content, tools, and analytics to law firms and governments. The Corporates segment provides a suite of content-enabled technology solutions for legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, and IT professionals. The Tax & Accounting Professionals segment offers research and workflow products focusing on tax offerings and automating tax workflows to tax, accounting, and audit professionals in accounting firms. The Reuters News segment provides business, financial, and international news to media organizations, professional, and news consumers through Reuters News Agency, Reuters.com, Reuters Events, Thomson Reuters products, and to financial market professionals. The Global Print segment offers legal and tax information primarily in print format to legal and tax professionals, governments, law schools, and corporations. The company was formerly known as The Thomson Corporation and changed its name to Thomson Reuters Corporation in April 2008. The company was founded in 1851 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Thomson Reuters Corporation operates as a subsidiary of The Woodbridge Company Limited.
Trane Technologies logo

#10 - Trane Technologies

NYSE:TT
Stock Price: $275.44 (+$5.50)
Market Cap: $62.68 billion
P/E Ratio: 31.3
Dividend Yield: 1.09%
Consensus Rating: Hold (5 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $231.71 (-15.9% Upside)
Trane Technologies plc, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, sells, and services of solutions for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, custom, and custom and transport refrigeration in Ireland and internationally. It offers air conditioners, exchangers, and handlers; airside and terminal devices; air sourced heat pumps, auxiliary power units; chillers; coils and condensers; gensets; dehumidifiers; ductless; furnaces; home automation products; humidifiers; indoor air quality assessments and related products; large and light commercial unitary products; refrigerant reclamation products; thermostats/controls; transport heater products; variable refrigerant flow products; and water source heat pumps. The company also provides building management, telematic, control, energy efficiency and infrastructure program, geothermal, thermal energy, thermostats, rate chambers, package heating and cooling, temporary heating and cooling, and unitary systems; bus, rail, and multi-pipe heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems; and container, diesel-powered, truck, industrial, rail, self-powered truck, trailer, and vehicle-powered truck refrigeration and air filtration systems, as well as aftermarket and OEM parts and supplies. In addition, it offers energy and facility management, installation and performance contracting, repair and maintenance, and rental services. It markets and sells its products under the Trane and Thermo King brands through sales offices, distributors, and dealers; and through sales and service companies with a supporting chain of distributors. The company was formerly known as Ingersoll-Rand Plc and changed its name to Trane Technologies plc in March 2020. Trane Technologies plc was founded in 1885 and is headquartered in Swords, Ireland.
Marvell Technology logo

#11 - Marvell Technology

NASDAQ:MRVL
Stock Price: $68.83 (-$2.19)
Market Cap: $59.50 billion
Dividend Yield: 0.35%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (21 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $69.96 (1.6% Upside)
Marvell Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, spanning the data center core to network edge. The company develops, scales complex System-on-a-Chip architectures, integrating analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing functionality. It offers a portfolio of Ethernet solutions, including controllers, network adapters, physical transceivers, and switches; single or multiple core processors; custom application specific integrated circuits; and System-on-a-Chip solutions. The company also provides electro-optical products, including pulse amplitude modulations, coherent digital signal processors, laser drivers, trans-impedance amplifiers, silicon photonics, and data center interconnect solutions; fibre channel products comprising host bus adapters and controllers; single or multiple core processors; storage controllers for hard disk drives and solid-state-drives; and host system interfaces, including serial attached SCSI, serial advanced technology attachment, peripheral component interconnect express, non-volatile memory express (NVMe), and NVMe over fabrics. It has operations in the United States, Argentina, China, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Marvell Technology, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
Republic Services logo

#12 - Republic Services

NYSE:RSG
Stock Price: $173.49 (-$1.15)
Market Cap: $54.59 billion
P/E Ratio: 33.6
Dividend Yield: 1.23%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (8 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $169.33 (-2.4% Upside)
Republic Services, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, offers environmental services in the United States. It is involved in the collection and processing of recyclable, solid waste, and industrial waste materials; transportation and disposal of non-hazardous and hazardous waste streams; and other environmental solutions. Its residential collection services include curbside collection of material for transport to transfer stations, landfills, recycling centers, and organics processing facilities; supply of recycling and waste containers; and renting of compactors. The company also engages in the processing and sale of old corrugated containers, old newsprint, aluminum, glass, and other materials; and provision of landfill services. It serves small-container, large-container, and residential customers. As of December 31, 2022, the company operated through 353 collection operations, 233 transfer stations, 206 active landfills, 71 recycling centers, 6 saltwater disposal wells, and 7 deep injection wells, as well as 3 treatment, recovery, and disposal facilities in 41 states; and 20 treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. It also operates 73 landfill gas-to-energy and renewable energy projects, and 12 closed landfills. The company was incorporated in 1996 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.
Palantir Technologies logo

#13 - Palantir Technologies

NYSE:PLTR
Stock Price: $24.38 (-$0.13)
Market Cap: $53.05 billion
P/E Ratio: 270.9
Consensus Rating: Reduce (3 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 4 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $15.25 (-37.4% Upside)
Palantir Technologies Inc. builds and deploys software platforms for the intelligence community in the United States to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations. The company provides Palantir Gotham, a software platform which enables users to identify patterns hidden deep within datasets, ranging from signals intelligence sources to reports from confidential informants, as well as facilitates the handoff between analysts and operational users, helping operators plan and execute real-world responses to threats that have been identified within the platform. It also offers Palantir Foundry, a platform that transforms the ways organizations operate by creating a central operating system for their data; and allows individual users to integrate and analyze the data they need in one place. In addition, it provides Palantir Apollo, a software that enables customers to deploy their own software virtually in any environment. Palantir Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Denver, Colorado.
Copart logo

#14 - Copart

NASDAQ:CPRT
Stock Price: $50.91 (-$0.05)
Market Cap: $48.88 billion
P/E Ratio: 37.3
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (4 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $45.50 (-10.6% Upside)
Copart, Inc. provides online auctions and vehicle remarketing services. It offers a range of services for processing and selling vehicles over the Internet through its Virtual Bidding Third Generation Internet auction-style sales technology on behalf of vehicle sellers, insurance companies, banks and finance companies, charities, and fleet operators and dealers, as well as individual owners. The company's services include online seller access, salvage estimation, estimating, end-of-life vehicle processing, virtual insured exchange, transportation, vehicle inspection stations, on-demand reporting, motor vehicle regulatory agency processing, flexible vehicle processing programs, buy it now, member network, sales process, and dealer services. Its services also include buying vehicles through CashForCars.com and Copart Direct. The company sells its products principally to licensed vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, repair licensees, used vehicle dealers, and exporters, as well as to the general public. It operates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, Finland, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, and Spain. Copart, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Spotify Technology logo

#15 - Spotify Technology

NYSE:SPOT
Stock Price: $240.77 (+$0.76)
Market Cap: $46.98 billion
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (17 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $223.36 (-7.2% Upside)
Spotify Technology S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides audio streaming services worldwide. It operates through two segments, Premium and Ad-Supported. The Premium segment offers unlimited online and offline streaming access to its catalog of music and podcasts without commercial breaks to its subscribers. The Ad-Supported segment provides on-demand online access to its catalog of music and unlimited online access to the catalog of podcasts to its subscribers on their computers, tablets, and compatible mobile devices. The company also offers sales, distribution and marketing, contract research and development, and customer support services. Spotify Technology S.A. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
NU logo

#16 - NU

NYSE:NU
Stock Price: $9.89 (+$0.25)
Market Cap: $46.43 billion
P/E Ratio: 123.6
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (7 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $9.40 (-5.0% Upside)
Nu Holdings Ltd. provides digital banking platform and digital financial services in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and internationally. It offers Nu credit and debit cards; Ultraviolet credit and debit cards; and mobile payment solutions for NuAccount customers to make and receive transfers, pay bills, and make everyday purchases through their mobile phones. The company provides savings solutions, such as Nu Personal Accounts, a digital account solution that supports all personal finance activities, from daily purchases and money transfers to savings; and Nu business accounts designed specifically for entrepreneur customers and their businesses. In addition, it offers NuCrypto, a solution for buying and selling cryptocurrencies through the Nu app; NuInvest, an investment product that provides equity, fixed-income, options, and ETF products, as well as multimarket funds with curated asset allocations based on the customer's risk profile and financial position; personal unsecured loans; in-app buy now pay later' solution for Nu card customers to pay credit and debit purchases, and banking payment slips over time in up to twelve installments; and NuInsurance protecting solutions to help its customers secure life insurance and funeral benefits. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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#17 - Paychex

NASDAQ:PAYX
Stock Price: $123.03 (+$0.28)
Market Cap: $44.27 billion
P/E Ratio: 27.3
Dividend Yield: 2.89%
Consensus Rating: Reduce (0 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $123.17 (0.1% Upside)
Paychex, Inc. provides integrated human capital management solutions for human resources (HR), payroll, benefits, and insurance services for small to medium-sized businesses in the United States, Europe, and India. It offers payroll processing services; payroll tax administration services; employee payment services; and regulatory compliance services, such as new-hire reporting and garnishment processing. The company also provides HR solutions, including payroll, employer compliance, HR and employee benefits administration, risk management outsourcing, and the on-site availability of a professionally trained HR representative; and retirement services administration, including plan implementation, ongoing compliance with government regulations, employee and employer reporting, participant and employer online access, electronic funds transfer, and other administrative services. In addition, it offers cloud-based HR administration software products for employee benefits management and administration, time and attendance, digital communication solutions, recruiting, and onboarding solutions; plan administration outsourcing and state unemployment insurance services; various business services to small to medium-sized businesses comprising payroll funding and outsourcing services, which include payroll processing, invoicing, and tax preparation; and payment processing services, financial fitness programs, and a small-business loan resource center. Further, the company provides insurance services for property and casualty coverage, such as workers' compensation, business-owner policies, cyber security protection, and commercial auto, as well as health and benefits coverage, including health, dental, vision, and life. It markets and sells its services primarily through its direct sales force. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Rochester, New York.
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#18 - Worldpay

NYSE:WP
Stock Price: $135.00
Market Cap: $42.01 billion
P/E Ratio: 36.7
Consensus Rating: N/A (0 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: N/A
Worldpay, Inc., through its subsidiary, Worldpay Holding, LLC, provides electronic payment processing services in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australasia. It operates in two segments, Technology Solutions, Merchant Solutions, and Issuer Solutions. The company offers merchant acquiring and payment processing services, such as authorization and settlement, customer service, chargeback and retrieval processing, and interchange management. It also provides value-added services, such data analytics and information management solutions, foreign currency management, and various funding options; and security solutions, including point-to-point encryption and tokenization at the point of sale and for e-commerce transactions. In addition, the company offers card issuer processing, payment network processing, fraud protection, card production, prepaid program management, automated teller machine driving, portfolio optimization, data analytics, and card program marketing, as well as network gateway and switching services. Further, it provides card and statement production, and collections and inbound/outbound call centers. The company serves merchants and financial institutions comprising regional banks, community banks, credit unions, and regional personal identification number networks through direct sales forces and referral partners. The company was formerly known as Vantiv, Inc. and changed its name to Worldpay, Inc. in January 2018. Worldpay, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Block logo

#19 - Block

NYSE:SQ
Stock Price: $66.88 (-$1.95)
Market Cap: $41.07 billion
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (24 Buy Ratings, 6 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $76.87 (14.9% Upside)
Square, Inc. provides payment and point-of-sale solutions in the United States and internationally. The company's commerce ecosystem includes point-of-sale software and hardware that enables sellers to turn mobile and computing devices into payment and point-of-sale solutions. It offers hardware products, including Magstripe reader, which enables swiped transactions of magnetic stripe cards; Contactless and chip reader that accepts EMV® chip cards and Near Field Communication payments; Chip card reader, which accepts EMV® chip cards and enables swiped transactions of magnetic stripe cards; Square Stand, which enables an iPad to be used as a payment terminal or full point of sale solution; and Square Register that combines its hardware, point-of-sale software, and payments technology, as well as managed payments solutions. The company also provides Square Point of Sale software; Cash App, which provides access to the financial system, allowing customers to electronically send, store, and spend money; Caviar, a food ordering platform for restaurants to offer food ordering, pickup and delivery, to their customers; and Square Capital that facilitates loans to sellers based on real-time payment and point-of-sale data. Square, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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#20 - Waste Connections

NYSE:WCN
Stock Price: $156.71 (+$0.73)
Market Cap: $40.38 billion
P/E Ratio: 48.7
Dividend Yield: 0.73%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (14 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $162.69 (3.8% Upside)
Waste Connections, Inc. provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer, disposal, and resource recovery services in the United States and Canada. It offers collection services to residential, commercial, municipal, industrial, and exploration and production (E&P) customers; landfill disposal services; and recycling services for various recyclable materials, including compost, cardboard, mixed paper, plastic containers, glass bottles, and ferrous and aluminum metals. The company also owns and operates transfer stations that receive compact and/or load waste to be transported to landfills or treatment facilities through truck, rail, or barge; and intermodal services for the rail haul movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest through a network of intermodal facilities. In addition, it provides E&P waste treatment, recovery, and disposal services for waste resulting from oil and natural gas exploration and production activity, such as drilling fluids, drill cuttings, completion fluids, and flowback water; production wastes and produced water during a well's operating life; contaminated soils that require treatment during site reclamation; and substances, which require clean-up after a spill, reserve pit clean-up, or pipeline rupture. Further, the company offers leasing services to its customers. Waste Connections, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is based in Woodbridge, Canada.
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#21 - Fidelity National Information Services

NYSE:FIS
Stock Price: $61.76 (+$0.32)
Market Cap: $36.59 billion
Dividend Yield: 3.37%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (11 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $66.17 (7.1% Upside)
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. provides technology solutions for financial institutions and businesses worldwide. It operates through Banking Solutions, Merchant Solutions, and Capital Market Solutions segments. The Banking Solutions segment provides core processing and ancillary applications; mobile and online banking; fraud, risk management, and compliance; electronic funds transfer and network; card and retail payment; wealth and retirement; and item processing and output solutions. The Merchant Solutions segment offers small- to medium-sized businesses acquiring, enterprise acquiring, and ecommerce solutions. The Capital Market Solutions segment provides investment operations and data, lending, trading and processing, and treasury and risk solutions. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.
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#22 - Verisk Analytics

NASDAQ:VRSK
Stock Price: $250.61 (+$1.35)
Market Cap: $36.34 billion
P/E Ratio: 73.7
Dividend Yield: 0.54%
Consensus Rating: Hold (6 Buy Ratings, 9 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $247.50 (-1.2% Upside)
Verisk Analytics, Inc. provides data analytics solutions to the insurance markets in the United States and internationally. The company provides predictive analytics and decision support solutions to customers in rating, underwriting, claims, catastrophe and weather risk, global risk analytics, and various other fields. It focuses on the prediction of loss, selection and pricing of risk, and compliance with their reporting requirements for property and casualty insurance customers, as well as develops machine learned and artificially intelligent models to forecast scenarios and produce standard and customized analytics that help its customers to manage their businesses, including detecting fraud before and after a loss event, and quantifying losses. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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#23 - Gartner

NYSE:IT
Stock Price: $463.52 (+$7.34)
Market Cap: $36.13 billion
P/E Ratio: 41.9
Consensus Rating: Hold (1 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $455.25 (-1.8% Upside)
Gartner, Inc. operates as a research and advisory company in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Research, Conferences, and Consulting. The Research segment delivers its research primarily through a subscription service that include on-demand access to published research content, data and benchmarks, and direct access to a network of research experts. The Conferences segment offers business professionals in an organization the opportunity to learn, share, and network. The Consulting segment offers market research, custom analysis, and on-the-ground support services. This segment also offers actionable solutions for IT-related priorities, including IT cost optimization, digital transformation, and IT sourcing optimization. Gartner, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
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#24 - Global Payments

NYSE:GPN
Stock Price: $136.00 (-$0.63)
Market Cap: $35.41 billion
P/E Ratio: 40.7
Dividend Yield: 0.74%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (20 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $148.37 (9.1% Upside)
Global Payments Inc. provides payment technology and software solutions for card, check, and digital-based payments in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. It operates through three segments: Merchant Solutions, Issuer Solutions, and Consumer Solutions. The Merchant Solutions segment offers authorization, settlement and funding, customer support, chargeback resolution, terminal rental, sales and deployment, payment security, and consolidated billing and reporting services. This segment also provides an array of enterprise software solutions that streamline business operations of its customers in various vertical markets; and value-added solutions and services, such as point-of-sale software, analytics and customer engagement, human capital management, and payroll. The Issuer Solutions segment offers solutions that enable financial institutions and retailers to manage their card portfolios through a platform; and commercial payments, and account payables and electronic payment alternatives solutions for businesses and governments. The Consumer Solutions segment provides general purpose reloadable prepaid debit and payroll cards, demand deposit accounts, and other financial service solutions to the underbanked and other consumers, and businesses under the Netspend and other brands. It markets its products and services through direct sales force, trade associations, agent and enterprise software providers, referral arrangements with value-added resellers, and independent sales organizations. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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#25 - Equifax

NYSE:EFX
Stock Price: $249.18 (-$2.88)
Market Cap: $30.70 billion
P/E Ratio: 56.6
Dividend Yield: 0.63%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (14 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $261.53 (5.0% Upside)
Equifax Inc. operates as a data, analytics, and technology company. The company operates through three segments: Workforce Solutions, U.S. Information Solutions (USIS), and International. The Workforce Solutions segment offers services that enables customers to verify income, employment, educational history, criminal justice data, healthcare professional licensure, and sanctions of people in the United States; and employer customers with services that assist them in complying with and automating payroll-related and human resource management processes throughout the entire cycle of the employment relationship. The USIS segment provides consumer and commercial information services, such as credit information and credit scoring, credit modeling and portfolio analytics, locate, fraud detection and prevention, identity verification, and other consulting services; mortgage services; financial marketing services; identity management services; and credit monitoring products. The International segment offers information service products, which include consumer and commercial services, such as credit and financial information, and credit scoring and modeling; and credit and other marketing products and services, as well as offers information, technology, and other services to support debt collections and recovery management. The company serves customers in financial services, mortgage, retail, telecommunications, utilities, automotive, brokerage, healthcare, and insurance industries, as well as government agencies. It operates in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and the Republic of Ireland. The company was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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#26 - First Data

NYSE:FDC
Stock Price: $31.69
Market Cap: $29.91 billion
P/E Ratio: 26.2
Consensus Rating: N/A (0 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: N/A
First Data Corporation provides commerce enabled technology and solutions for merchants, financial institutions, and card issuers in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. The company operates through three segments: Global Business Solutions, Global Financial Solutions, and Network & Security Solutions. The Global Business Solutions segment provides solutions to merchants, such as retail point of sale merchant acquiring, e-commerce, and mobile payment services, as well as cloud based point of sale operating system that include a marketplace for proprietary and third party applications. The Global Finance Solutions segment provides technology solutions for bank and non-bank issuers, such as credit, retail private label, commercial card, and loan processing, as well as licensed financial software systems; suite of account services that include card personalization and embossing, customer communications, and professional services; and call center solutions and back office processing. The Network & Security Solutions segment offers EFT network, stored value network, and security and fraud solutions, as well as other value added solutions to its clients in GBS and GFS segments, smaller financial institutions, and other enterprise clients. First Data Corporation was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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#27 - Slack Technologies

NYSE:WORK
Stock Price: $45.20
Market Cap: $26.52 billion
Consensus Rating: N/A (0 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: N/A
Slack Technologies, Inc. operates Slack, a business technology software platform in the United States and internationally. Its platform brings together people, applications, and data, as well as sells its offering under a software-as-a-service model. The company was formerly known as Tiny Speck, Inc. and changed its name to Slack Technologies, Inc. in 2014. Slack Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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#28 - Symbotic

NASDAQ:SYM
Stock Price: $46.71 (+$3.72)
Market Cap: $26.03 billion
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (10 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $52.85 (13.1% Upside)
Symbotic Inc., an automation technology company, provides robotics and technology to improve efficiency for retailers and wholesalers in the United States. The company offers Symbotic system, an end-to-end warehouse automation system for product distribution. It also designs, assemblies, and installs modular inventory management systems and performs configuration of embedded software. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
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#29 - Total System Services

NYSE:TSS
Stock Price: $133.27
Market Cap: $23.59 billion
P/E Ratio: 31.3
Dividend Yield: 0.39%
Consensus Rating: N/A (0 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: N/A
Total System Services, Inc. provides payment processing, merchant, and related payment services to financial and nonfinancial institutions worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Issuer Solutions, Merchant Solutions, and Consumer Solutions. It offers general purpose reloadable prepaid and payroll cards, demand deposit accounts, and other financial service solutions to the underbanked and other consumers and businesses. The company also provides third party processing and related services for credit card issuers, merchant acquirers, independent sales organizations, and financial institutions; and issuer processing services, as well as operates as a prepaid program manager. Total System Services, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia.
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#30 - Broadridge Financial Solutions

NYSE:BR
Stock Price: $198.98 (-$0.02)
Market Cap: $23.43 billion
P/E Ratio: 34.7
Dividend Yield: 1.61%
Consensus Rating: Hold (3 Buy Ratings, 4 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $203.17 (2.1% Upside)
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. provides investor communications and technology-driven solutions for the financial services industry. The company's Investor Communication Solutions segment processes and distributes proxy materials to investors in equity securities and mutual funds, as well as facilitates related vote processing services; and distributes regulatory reports, class action, and corporate action/reorganization event information, as well as tax reporting solutions. It also offers ProxyEdge, an electronic proxy delivery and voting solution; data-driven solutions and an end-to-end platform for content management, composition, and omni-channel distribution of regulatory, marketing, and transactional information, as well as mutual fund trade processing services; solutions for public corporations and mutual funds; data and analytics solutions; SEC filing and capital markets transaction services; registrar, stock transfer, and record-keeping services; and omni-channel customer communications solutions, as well as operates Broadridge Communications Cloud platform that creates, delivers, and manages communications and customer engagement activities. Its Global Technology and Operations segment provides solutions that automate the front-to-back transaction lifecycle of equity, mutual fund, fixed income, foreign exchange and exchange-traded derivatives, order capture and execution, trade confirmation, margin, cash management, clearing and settlement, reference data management, reconciliations, securities financing and collateral management, asset servicing, compliance and regulatory reporting, portfolio accounting, and custody-related services. This segment also offers business process outsourcing services; technology solutions, such portfolio management, compliance, fee billing, and operational support solutions; and capital market and wealth and investment management solutions. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Lake Success, New York.
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#31 - Rocket Companies

NYSE:RKT
Stock Price: $11.55 (+$0.07)
Market Cap: $22.90 billion
Consensus Rating: Reduce (0 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 6 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $9.40 (-18.7% Upside)
Rocket Companies, Inc., a fintech holding company, provides mortgage lending, title and settlement services, and other financial technology services in the United States and Canada. It operates through two segments, Direct to Consumer and Partner Network. The company's solutions include Rocket Mortgage, a mortgage lender; Amrock that provides title insurance, property valuation, and settlement services; Rocket Homes, a home search platform and real estate agent referral network, which offers technology-enabled services to support the home buying and selling experience; Rocket Auto, a virtual marketplace where consumers can shop and compare vehicles of many makes and models from a wide network of dealers; and Rocket Loans, an online-based personal loans business. It also offers Core Digital Media, a digital, social, and display advertiser in the mortgage, insurance, and education sectors; Rocket Solar, a tech-driven, residential solar energy provider; Rocket Money, a personal finance app that helps clients manage every aspect of their financial lives; Lendesk, a software services company that provides a point of sale system for mortgage professionals and a loan origination system for private lenders; Rocket Central, a professional services organization that provides technology, data, marketing, communication and other services; Rock Connections, a sales and support platform specializing in contact center services; Rocket Innovation Studio that recruits and mentors top technology talent; and Edison Financial, a digital mortgage broker. In addition, the company originates, closes, sells, and services agency-conforming loans. Rocket Companies, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Rocket Companies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Rock Holdings Inc.
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#32 - Aptiv

NYSE:APTV
Stock Price: $82.02 (+$0.73)
Market Cap: $22.89 billion
P/E Ratio: 7.9
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (10 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $115.60 (40.9% Upside)
Aptiv PLC engages in design, manufacture, and sale of vehicle components worldwide. The company provides electrical, electronic, and safety technology solutions to the automotive and commercial vehicle markets. It operates in two segments, Signal and Power Solutions, and Advanced Safety and User Experience. The Signal and Power Solutions segment designs, manufactures, and assembles vehicle's electrical architecture, including engineered component products, connectors, wiring assemblies and harnesses, cable management products, electrical centers, and hybrid high voltage and safety distribution systems. The Advanced Safety and User Experience segment provides critical technologies and services for vehicle safety, security, comfort, and convenience, such as sensing and perception systems, electronic control units, multi-domain controllers, vehicle connectivity systems, application software, autonomous driving technologies, and end-to-end DevOps tools. The company was formerly known as Delphi Automotive PLC and changed its name to Aptiv PLC in December 2017. Aptiv PLC was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
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#33 - Veralto

NYSE:VLTO
Stock Price: $82.13 (-$0.43)
Market Cap: $20.23 billion
Dividend Yield: 0.44%
Consensus Rating: Hold (4 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $87.63 (6.7% Upside)
Veralto Corporation provides technology solutions that monitor, enhance, and protect resources worldwide. Its technologies address challenges across regulated industries, including municipal utilities, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrials. The company core offerings include water analytics, water treatment, marking and coding, and packaging and color. It operates through two segments Water Quality (WQ) and Product Quality & Innovation (PQI). The WQ segment improves the quality and reliability of water through brands, including Hach, Trojan Technologies, and ChemTreat. The PQI segment promotes consumer trust in products and help enable product innovation through brands, such as Videojet, Linx, Esko, X-Rite, and Pantone. Veralto Corporation was formerly known as DH EAS Holding Corp. and changed its name to Veralto Corporation on February 22, 2023. The company was incorporated in 2022 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts. Veralto Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation.
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#34 - FLEETCOR Technologies

NYSE:FLT
Stock Price: $273.40 (+$8.28)
Market Cap: $19.74 billion
P/E Ratio: 20.7
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (9 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $296.33 (8.4% Upside)
FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc., a business payments company that helps businesses spend less by enabling them to manage their expense-related purchasing and vendor payments processes. It offers corporate payments solutions, such as accounts payable automation; Virtual Card, which provides a single-use card number for a specific amount usable within a defined timeframe; Cross-Border that is used by its customers to pay international vendors, foreign office and personnel expenses, capital expenditures, and profit repatriation and dividends; and purchasing cards and travel and entertainment cards for its customers to analyze and manage their corporate spending. The company also provides vehicle and mobility solutions, including fuel solutions to businesses and government entities that operate vehicle fleets, as well as to oil and leasing companies, and fuel marketers; lodging solutions to businesses that have employees who travel overnight for work purposes, as well as to airlines and cruise lines to accommodate traveling crews and stranded passengers; and electronic toll payments solutions to businesses and consumers in the form of radio frequency identification tags affixed to vehicles' windshields. In addition, it offers gift card program management and processing services in plastic and digital forms that include card design, production and packaging, delivery and fulfillment, card and account management, transaction processing, promotion development and management, website design and hosting, program analytics, and card distribution channel management. Further, the company provides other products consisting of payroll cards, vehicle maintenance service solution, long-haul transportation solution, prepaid food vouchers or cards, and prepaid transportation cards and vouchers. It serves business, merchant, consumer, and payment network customers in North America, Brazil, and Internationally. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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#35 - Booz Allen Hamilton

NYSE:BAH
Stock Price: $146.69 (+$2.07)
Market Cap: $19.03 billion
P/E Ratio: 47.3
Dividend Yield: 1.28%
Consensus Rating: Hold (5 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $139.56 (-4.9% Upside)
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation provides management and technology consulting, analytics, engineering, digital solutions, mission operations, and cyber services to governments, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations in the United States and internationally. It also focuses on artificial intelligence services comprising of machine learning, predictive modeling, automation and decision analytics, and quantum computing. The company offers artificial intelligence, machine learning , and computer network related operations. In addition, it provides data science, engineering, visualization, and analysis related capabilities. Further, the company engages in user experience, user interface, graphic and web design, design thinking, sketching, and digital product design capabilities. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
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#36 - Seagate Technology

NASDAQ:STX
Stock Price: $89.41 (+$1.73)
Market Cap: $18.73 billion
Dividend Yield: 3.13%
Consensus Rating: Hold (6 Buy Ratings, 10 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $79.00 (-11.6% Upside)
Seagate Technology Holdings plc provides data storage technology and solutions in Singapore, the United States, the Netherlands, and internationally. It provides mass capacity storage products, including enterprise nearline hard disk drives (HDDs), enterprise nearline solid state drives (SSDs), enterprise nearline systems, video and image HDDs, and network-attached storage drives. The company also offers legacy applications comprising Mission Critical HDDs and SSDs; external storage solutions under the Seagate Ultra Touch, One Touch, and Expansion product lines, as well as under the LaCie brand name; desktop drives; notebook drives, DVR HDDs, and gaming SSDs. In addition, it provides Lyve edge-to-cloud mass capacity platform. The company sells its products primarily to OEMs, distributors, and retailers. Seagate Technology Holdings plc was founded in 1978 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
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#37 - Jacobs Solutions

NYSE:J
Stock Price: $145.52 (+$2.35)
Market Cap: $18.28 billion
P/E Ratio: 26.0
Dividend Yield: 0.71%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (6 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $152.11 (4.5% Upside)
Jacobs Solutions Inc. provides consulting, technical, engineering, scientific, and project delivery services for the government and private sectors in the United States, Europe, Canada, India, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, and Africa. It operates through Critical Mission Solutions, People & Places Solutions, Divergent Solutions, and PA Consulting segments. The company offers cyber, data analytics, systems and software application integration and consulting, enterprise level and mission IT, design, nuclear, and enterprise level operations and maintenance services; software development, testing, mission integration, program management, research, development, test, evaluation services, training, and environmental remediation services; and other technical consulting solutions, as well as construction and construction management services. It also provides consulting services for consumer and manufacturing, defense and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, and transport industries. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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#38 - FactSet Research Systems

NYSE:FDS
Stock Price: $477.59 (+$7.53)
Market Cap: $18.19 billion
P/E Ratio: 38.6
Dividend Yield: 0.82%
Consensus Rating: Reduce (1 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 2 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $434.25 (-9.1% Upside)
FactSet Research Systems Inc., a financial data company, provides integrated financial information and analytical applications to the investment community in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company delivers insight and information through the workflow solutions of research, analytics and trading, content and technology solutions, and wealth. It serves portfolio managers, investment banks, asset managers, wealth advisors, corporate clients, and other financial services entities. FactSet Research Systems Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut.
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#39 - Omnicom Group

NYSE:OMC
Stock Price: $84.59 (-$2.04)
Market Cap: $16.75 billion
P/E Ratio: 12.2
Dividend Yield: 3.31%
Consensus Rating: Hold (5 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $99.22 (17.3% Upside)
Omnicom Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, offers advertising, marketing, and corporate communications services. It provides a range of services in the areas of advertising and media, precision marketing, commerce and brand consulting, experiential, execution and support, public relations, and healthcare. The company's services include advertising, branding, content marketing, corporate social responsibility consulting, crisis communications, custom publishing, data analytics, database management, digital/direct marketing, digital transformation, entertainment marketing, experiential marketing, field marketing, financial/corporate business-to-business advertising, graphic arts/digital imaging, healthcare marketing and communications, and in-store design services. Its services also comprise interactive marketing, investor relations, marketing research, media planning and buying, merchandising and point of sale, mobile marketing, multi-cultural marketing, non-profit marketing, organizational communications, package design, product placement, promotional marketing, public affairs, retail marketing, sales support, search engine marketing, shopper marketing, social media marketing, and sports and event marketing services. It operates in the North and Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific. The company was incorporated in 1944 and is based in New York, New York.
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#40 - AppLovin

NYSE:APP
Stock Price: $46.35 (-$0.20)
Market Cap: $15.56 billion
P/E Ratio: 154.5
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (11 Buy Ratings, 3 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $47.95 (3.5% Upside)
AppLovin Corporation engages in building a software-based platform for mobile app developers to enhance the marketing and monetization of their apps in the United States and internationally. The company's software solutions include AppDiscovery, a marketing software solution, which matches advertiser demand with publisher supply through auctions; Adjust, an analytics platform that helps marketers grow their mobile apps with solutions for measuring, optimizing campaigns, and protecting user data; MAX, an in-app bidding software that optimizes the value of an app's advertising inventory by running a real-time competitive auction; and Wurl, a connected TV platform, which primarily distributes streaming video for content companies. Its business clients include various advertisers, internet platforms, and others. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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#41 - UiPath

NYSE:PATH
Stock Price: $26.35 (+$1.99)
Market Cap: $14.92 billion
Consensus Rating: Hold (6 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $22.32 (-15.3% Upside)
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, and Japan. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform combines artificial intelligence with desktop recording, back-end mining of both human activity and system logs, and intuitive visualization tools, which enables users to discover, analyze, and identify processes to automate in a centralized portal; offers low-code development environments that allows users in an organization to create attended and unattended automations without any prior knowledge of coding; deploys robots in highly immersive attended experiences or in standalone, unattended modes behind the scenes, and can leverage native connectors built for commonly used line-of-business applications; offers centralized tools designed to manage, test, and deploy automations and ML models across the enterprise; allows customers to manage long running processes that orchestrate work between robots and humans; and enable users to track, measure, and forecast the performance of automation in their enterprise and help businesses ensure compliance with business standards. In addition, the company provides maintenance and support for its software, as well as professional services, such as training and implementation services to facilitate the adoption of its platform. It serves banking, healthcare, financial services, and government entities. UiPath Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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#42 - Genesis Healthcare

NYSE:GEN
Stock Price: $21.35 (+$0.48)
Market Cap: $13.65 billion
P/E Ratio: 23.7
Dividend Yield: 3.05%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (4 Buy Ratings, 1 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $26.00 (21.8% Upside)
Genesis Healthcare, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates skilled nursing facilities and assisted/senior living facilities in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Inpatient Services; Rehabilitation Therapy Services; and Other Services. It also provides a range of rehabilitation therapy services, including speech-language pathology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and respiratory therapy. In addition, the company offers other specialty medical services, such as physician, staffing, and other healthcare related services. As of December 31, 2020, it provided inpatient services through a network of approximately 341 skilled nursing facilities and assisted/senior living communities in 24 states; and supplied rehabilitation and respiratory therapy to approximately 1,400 healthcare locations in 42 states, the District of Columbia and China. The company was formerly known as FC-GEN Operations Investment, LLC and changed its name to Genesis HealthCare, Inc. in February 2015. Genesis HealthCare, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
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#43 - Gen Digital

NASDAQ:GEN
Stock Price: $21.35 (+$0.48)
Market Cap: $13.60 billion
P/E Ratio: 9.9
Dividend Yield: 2.34%
Consensus Rating: N/A (0 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: N/A
Gen Digital Inc. provides cyber safety solutions for consumers in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and Japan. It offers security and performance products comprising that provide real-time protection for PCs, Macs and mobile devices against malware, viruses, adware, and other online threats; and Norton and LifeLock identity theft protection solution that offers monitoring, alerts, and restoration services to its customers. The company also provides Dark Web Monitoring product, which looks for personal information of its members on the Dark Web; Avast Secure Identity that provides advanced identity protection including credit monitoring and alerts; LifeLock Home Title Protect that detects fraud and notifies members; and Norton Social Media Monitoring that help keep customers' social media accounts safer by monitoring them for account takeovers, risky activity, and inappropriate content. In addition, it offers VPN solution, which enhances security and online privacy by providing an encrypted data tunnel;Norton Privacy Monitor Assistant, an on-demand, white glove service where agents help members delete personal information from data brokers online; Avira Security, a consumer-focused portfolio of cybersecurity and privacy solutions; AntiTrack product, which helps to keep personal information and browsing activity private by blocking trackers and disguising digital fingerprints online; and Online Reputation Management solution that manages online search results, personal branding, and digital privacy. It markets and sells its products and related services through retailers, telecom service providers, hardware original equipment manufacturers, and employee benefit providers, as well as e-commerce platform. The company was formerly known as NortonLifeLock Inc. and changed its name to Gen Digital Inc. in November 2022. Gen Digital Inc. was founded in 1982 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.
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#44 - TransUnion

NYSE:TRU
Stock Price: $69.21
Market Cap: $13.41 billion
Dividend Yield: 0.61%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (9 Buy Ratings, 5 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $73.60 (6.3% Upside)
TransUnion operates as a global consumer credit reporting agency that provides risk and information solutions. The company operates in three segments: U.S. Markets, International, and Consumer Interactive. The U.S. Markets segment provides consumer reports, actionable insights, and analytic services to businesses, which uses its services to acquire new customers; assess consumer ability to pay for services; identify cross-selling opportunities; measure and manage debt portfolio risk; collect debt; verify consumer identities; and mitigate fraud risk. This segment serves various industry vertical markets, including financial services, technology, commerce and communications, insurance, media, services and collections, tenant and employment, and public sectors. The International segment offers credit reports, analytics, technology solutions, and other value-added risk management services; consumer services, which help consumers to manage their personal finances; consumer credit reporting, insurance and auto information solutions, and commercial credit information services. This segment serves customers in financial services, retail credit, insurance, automotive, collections, public sector, and communications industries through direct and indirect channels. The company was formerly known as TransUnion Holding Company, Inc. and changed its name to TransUnion in March 2015. TransUnion was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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#45 - Affirm

NASDAQ:AFRM
Stock Price: $43.86 (-$5.36)
Market Cap: $13.23 billion
Consensus Rating: Reduce (3 Buy Ratings, 8 Hold Ratings, 6 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $26.81 (-38.9% Upside)
Affirm Holdings, Inc. operates a platform for digital and mobile-first commerce in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company's platform includes point-of-sale payment solution for consumers, merchant commerce solutions, and a consumer-focused app. Its commerce platform, agreements with originating banks, and capital markets partners enables consumers to pay for a purchase over time with terms ranging up to 60 months. The company has active merchants covering small businesses, large enterprises, direct-to-consumer brands, brick-and-mortar stores, and companies with an omni-channel presence. Its merchants represent a range of industries, including sporting goods and outdoors, furniture and homewares, travel and ticketing, apparel, accessories, consumer electronics, and jewelry. Affirm Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
GFL Environmental logo

#46 - GFL Environmental

NYSE:GFL
Stock Price: $35.23 (-$0.06)
Market Cap: $13.03 billion
Dividend Yield: 0.15%
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (10 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $41.77 (18.6% Upside)
GFL Environmental Inc. offers non-hazardous solid waste management and environmental services in Canada and the United States. It offers solid waste management, liquid waste management, and soil remediation services, including collection, transportation, transfer, recycling, and disposal services for municipal, residential, and commercial, and industrial customers. GFL Environmental Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Vaughan, Canada.
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#47 - Elastic

NYSE:ESTC
Stock Price: $130.39 (+$3.85)
Market Cap: $12.99 billion
Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy (13 Buy Ratings, 7 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $94.61 (-27.4% Upside)
Elastic N.V., a data analytics company, delivers solutions designed to run in public or private clouds in multi-cloud environments. It primarily offers Elastic Stack, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data. The company's Elastic Stack product portfolio comprises Elasticsearch, a distributed, real-time search and analytics engine, and data store for various types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial, structured, and unstructured; Kibana, a user interface, management, and configuration interface for the Elastic Stack; Elastic Agent that offers integrated host protection and central management services; Beats, a single-purpose data shippers for sending data from edge machines to Elasticsearch or Logstash; and Logstash, a data processing pipeline for ingesting data into Elasticsearch or other storage systems from a multitude of sources simultaneously. It also provides software solutions on the Elastic Stack that address cases, including search applications, workplace search, logs, metrics, application performance monitoring, synthetic monitoring, security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint security, extended detection and response, and cloud security. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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#48 - Rentokil Initial

NYSE:RTO
Stock Price: $25.56 (-$0.06)
Market Cap: $12.90 billion
Dividend Yield: 1.21%
Consensus Rating: Hold (1 Buy Ratings, 2 Hold Ratings, 1 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $38.00 (48.7% Upside)
Rentokil Initial plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides route-based services in North America, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and internationally. It offers a range of pest control services for rodents, and flying and crawling insects, as well as other forms of wildlife management for commercial customers. The company also provides hygiene services, including the provision and maintenance of products, such as soap and hand sanitizer dispensers, hand dryers, air care and purification, cubicle and surface sanitizers, feminine hygiene units, toilet paper dispensers, and floor protection mats. In addition, it engages in the supply and maintenance of workwear and protective equipment. Further, the company installs and services interior and exterior plant displays, flowers, replica foliage, Christmas decorations, and ambient scenting for commercial businesses; offers property care services; and provides a range of specialist cleaning services, such as graffiti removal deep cleaning of kitchens and washrooms, trauma cleaning, and flood or fire damage cleaning, as well as specialist medical and hygiene services. Rentokil Initial plc was founded in 1903 and is headquartered in Crawley, the United Kingdom.
Grab logo

#49 - Grab

NASDAQ:GRAB
Stock Price: $3.43 (+$0.11)
Market Cap: $12.85 billion
Consensus Rating: Buy (6 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $4.81 (40.3% Upside)
Grab Holdings Limited engages in the provision of superapps in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The company offers its Grab ecosystem, a single platform with superapps for driver- and merchant-partners and consumers, that allows access to mobility, delivery, digital financial services, and enterprise sector offerings. The company is headquartered in Singapore.
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#50 - RB Global

NYSE:RBA
Stock Price: $68.64 (+$0.67)
Market Cap: $12.53 billion
P/E Ratio: 81.7
Dividend Yield: 1.57%
Consensus Rating: Buy (6 Buy Ratings, 0 Hold Ratings, 0 Sell Ratings)
Consensus Price Target: $71.83 (4.7% Upside)
RB Global, Inc., an omnichannel marketplace, provides insights, services, and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Its marketplace brands include Ritchie Bros., an auctioneer of commercial assets and vehicles offering online bidding; IAA, a digital marketplace connecting vehicle buyers and sellers; Rouse Services, which provides asset management, data-driven intelligence, and performance benchmarking system; SmartEquip, a technology platform that supports customers' management of the equipment lifecycle; Xcira that provides live simulcast auction technologies; and Veritread, an online marketplace for heavy haul transport solution. The company serves customers across various asset classes, including automotive, commercial transportation, construction, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining, and agriculture. RB Global, Inc. was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Westchester, Illinois.
Business services stocks revised

Business services stocks are a category of stocks that represent companies that provide services to businesses rather than to consumers. These services range from accounting and marketing to human resources and information technology. 

Because business services are an important part of keeping any company running smoothly, they tend to be relatively recession-proof and offer investors a measure of safety. The business services industry is broad, and many different types of companies fall into this category. 

Some of the largest and most well-known business services companies include International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), Accenture (NYSE: ACN), and Xerox (NYSE: XRX) mid-sized and small-cap companies in the industry. They are also generally considered defensive stocks, meaning they hold up relatively well during economic downturns. One of the main reasons for this is that businesses still need to use these services even when times are tough. They may cut back on other expenses, but business services are considered essential. Another reason business services stocks tend to be defensive is that they are often less volatile than the overall market. This means that they tend to provide a measure of stability for investors. 

By investing in a business services company, you are investing in the company’s ability to provide a service that is essential to the growth and development of businesses. 

There are a few things to remember when investing in business services stocks. First, it is important to research the company thoroughly before investing. You will want to ensure that the company has a good track record and is financially stable. It is also important to consider the company’s customer base. If the company relies heavily on one industry or sector, it may be riskier than investing in a company that provides services to various businesses.

Another thing to consider is the company’s competitive landscape. If very few companies provide the same services, then the company you are considering investing in may have a monopoly. This can be a good or bad thing, depending on how the company is managed. Finally, you will want to pay attention to the company’s management team. A strong management team can make all the difference in a company's success.

Considering all these factors, you can make an informed decision about whether or not to invest in business services stocks. These stocks can be a great way to diversify your portfolio and provide you with a steady income stream. However, it is important to remember that risks are involved, and you should only invest what you can afford to lose.

The Business Services sector is one of the most important sectors of the economy, as it plays a critical role in supporting businesses of all sizes. The sector employs a large number of people and generates a significant amount of economic activity. The Business Services sector is expected to grow healthy in the coming years, supported by strong global economic growth. The sector is expected to benefit from the continued expansion of the global economy and the growing demand for business services from businesses of all sizes. 

The following are some of the best business services stocks to buy: 

Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. With more than 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve how the world works and lives. Its clients include 94 Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500.

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM)

IBM is a technology company that offers a wide range of products and services, including software, hardware, services, and business consulting. IBM has a long history of innovation and leadership in the technology industry. IBM is a global company with operations in more than 170 countries. 

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) 

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company specializes in developing and marketing database software and technology, cloud-engineered systems, and enterprise software products—particularly its own brands of database management systems.

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) 

SAP SE is a German multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. SAP's primary focus is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, but the company also offers customer relationship management (CRM), product lifecycle management (PLM), supplier relationship management (SRM), and human capital management (HCM) software. 

ServiceNow, Inc. (TSE: NOW) 

ServiceNow, Inc. is a cloud computing company headquartered in Santa Clara, California The company's software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings include incident management, problem management, change management, asset management, configuration management, and service catalog. 

Business services stocks are one of the best performing sectors in a recession. This is because businesses need to continue to operate and grow, even in tough economic times. They, therefore, continue to invest in services that help them do this. Some of the best-performing business services stocks in a recession include: 

Advertising and marketing agencies help businesses promote and sell their products and services. They are often essential in helping businesses grow during a recession. 

Business consulting firms
provide advice and assistance to businesses on how to operate more effectively. They can be vital in helping businesses cut costs and improve efficiency.

IT services companies provide businesses with the technology they need to operate. This can be essential in helping businesses stay competitive.

Human resources firms
help businesses with the recruitment and management of staff. This can be vital in helping businesses reduce costs and improve productivity.

Financial services firms
provide businesses with the financing they need to grow. They can be essential in helping businesses survive and thrive.

Financial ratios are powerful tools that can be used to measure, compare and analyze the financial performance of businesses in the same industry. When it comes to business services stocks, there are a few key financial ratios that investors and analysts should pay attention to to get a better understanding of the health of the companies. 

The first ratio is the price-to-earnings ratio, which measures how much investors are willing to pay for each dollar of a company's earnings. A higher P/E ratio indicates that investors are willing to pay more for the company's earnings and vice versa. For business services stocks, the average P/E ratio is around 20. 

The second ratio is the debt-to-equity ratio, which measures a company's financial leverage. A higher debt-to-equity ratio indicates that a company is more leveraged and has a higher risk of default. For business services stocks, the average debt-to-equity ratio is around 1.5. 

The third ratio is the return-on-equity ratio, which measures a company's profitability. A higher return-on-equity ratio indicates that a company is more profitable. For business services stocks, the average return-on-equity ratio is around 15%. By looking at these three ratios, investors and analysts can better understand the financial health of business services stocks.

The average return of business services stocks over the past 10 years has been 12.5%. This is higher than the average return of the overall stock market, which has been around 10%. There are a number of reasons why business services stocks have performed better than the overall market.

The business services sector is less cyclical than other sectors, such as manufacturing. This means that business services stocks are less affected by the growth and contraction of economic activity.

Second, the business services sector is global in nature. This means that it is less affected by events in any one particular country. For example, if there is a recession in the United States, businesses in other countries may still be doing well and providing services to businesses in the United States. 

Third, the business services sector is growing faster than the overall economy. This is due to several factors, such as the increasing globalization of businesses and the increasing use of technology. 

Fourth, business services stocks tend to pay higher dividends than the overall market. This is because business services companies are more profitable than other companies.

Many business services stocks pay dividends, and the average dividend yield for business services stocks is 1.4%. This may not seem like a high yield, but it is actually higher than the average for all stocks, which is currently 1.3%. And while business services stocks may not have the highest yields, they tend to be more stable and less volatile than other stocks. This makes them a good choice for investors who are looking for income but don’t want to take on too much risk. 

When the stock market goes down, it's not just tech stocks that take a hit. Business services stocks can also be affected, as investors seek out more stable investments. There are a few reasons why business services stocks may go down when the market is in a slump. First, business services companies are often tied to the overall economy's health. If the economy is struggling, businesses may cut back on spending, which can impact business services firms. 

Second, business services companies may also be affected by changes in interest rates. When rates go up, it can make it more expensive for businesses to borrow money for expansion or other projects. This can lead to cutbacks in spending, which can impact business services firms. 

Finally, business services companies may also be impacted by changes in the political environment. Businesses may be hesitant to invest in expansion or other projects if there is uncertainty about trade policy or other issues. This can lead to cutbacks in spending, which can impact business services firms.

One challenge facing business services stocks is the ongoing transition to a digital economy. Many of the companies in this sector are still reliant on paper-based processes and manual labor, which can be costly and inefficient. As businesses increasingly move to digital platforms, these companies will need to invest in new technologies and processes to stay competitive. 

Another challenge is the competitive landscape. There are a number of large, well-established companies in this sector, and many of them are struggling to keep up with the pace of change. This is creating an environment where smaller, more agile companies are able to gain market share. Finally, the business services sector is also facing some headwinds from the current political environment. Businesses are facing increased regulation and higher taxes, which can weigh on profits.

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