EVER vs. DX, PFC, CNOB, AC, HUT, IRS, TRIN, PHK, LDI, and DCOM
Should you be buying EverQuote stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EverQuote include Dynex Capital (DX), Premier Financial (PFC), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Associated Capital Group (AC), Hut 8 (HUT), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Trinity Capital (TRIN), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), loanDepot (LDI), and Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
EverQuote (NASDAQ:EVER) and Dynex Capital (NYSE:DX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, profitability and dividends.
Dynex Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than EverQuote. EverQuote is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Dynex Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Dynex Capital has a net margin of 30.50% compared to EverQuote's net margin of -17.81%. Dynex Capital's return on equity of -7.25% beat EverQuote's return on equity.
91.5% of EverQuote shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.3% of Dynex Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 38.5% of EverQuote shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Dynex Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
EverQuote currently has a consensus target price of $20.60, indicating a potential downside of 7.46%. Dynex Capital has a consensus target price of $13.31, indicating a potential upside of 11.96%. Given Dynex Capital's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Dynex Capital is more favorable than EverQuote.
EverQuote has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Dynex Capital has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Dynex Capital received 260 more outperform votes than EverQuote when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.24% of users gave EverQuote an outperform vote while only 59.68% of users gave Dynex Capital an outperform vote.
In the previous week, EverQuote had 4 more articles in the media than Dynex Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for EverQuote and 1 mentions for Dynex Capital. Dynex Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.23 beat EverQuote's score of -0.40 indicating that Dynex Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Dynex Capital beats EverQuote on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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