EZPW vs. EVER, GSBC, VMO, CCAP, FDUS, RDFN, CFB, CORZ, HFWA, and MCBS
Should you be buying EZCORP stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EZCORP include EverQuote (EVER), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Redfin (RDFN), CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB), Core Scientific (CORZ), Heritage Financial (HFWA), and MetroCity Bankshares (MCBS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
EZCORP (NASDAQ:EZPW) and EverQuote (NASDAQ:EVER) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
EZCORP currently has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 58.45%. EverQuote has a consensus target price of $20.60, indicating a potential upside of 5.37%. Given EZCORP's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe EZCORP is more favorable than EverQuote.
In the previous week, EverQuote had 1 more articles in the media than EZCORP. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for EverQuote and 4 mentions for EZCORP. EverQuote's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat EZCORP's score of 0.01 indicating that EverQuote is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
EZCORP received 284 more outperform votes than EverQuote when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.24% of users gave EverQuote an outperform vote while only 56.27% of users gave EZCORP an outperform vote.
EZCORP has a net margin of 4.62% compared to EverQuote's net margin of -17.81%. EZCORP's return on equity of 10.37% beat EverQuote's return on equity.
99.8% of EZCORP shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.5% of EverQuote shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of EZCORP shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 38.5% of EverQuote shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
EZCORP has higher revenue and earnings than EverQuote. EverQuote is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EZCORP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
EZCORP has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EverQuote has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
EZCORP beats EverQuote on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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