FRHC vs. VIRT, PIPR, NAVI, WT, TIGR, MKTX, SF, SEIC, JEF, and IRT
Should you be buying Freedom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freedom include Virtu Financial (VIRT), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Navient (NAVI), WisdomTree (WT), UP Fintech (TIGR), MarketAxess (MKTX), Stifel Financial (SF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), and Independence Realty Trust (IRT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Virtu Financial (NASDAQ:VIRT) and Freedom (NASDAQ:FRHC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
45.8% of Virtu Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of Freedom shares are held by institutional investors. 44.8% of Virtu Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 71.1% of Freedom shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Virtu Financial presently has a consensus price target of $22.24, indicating a potential downside of 7.32%. Given Freedom's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Virtu Financial is more favorable than Freedom.
Freedom has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Virtu Financial.
Virtu Financial has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freedom has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Virtu Financial received 362 more outperform votes than Freedom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.73% of users gave Virtu Financial an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Freedom an outperform vote.
Freedom has a net margin of 23.96% compared to Freedom's net margin of 6.04%. Virtu Financial's return on equity of 37.71% beat Freedom's return on equity.
In the previous week, Virtu Financial had 15 more articles in the media than Freedom. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Virtu Financial and 2 mentions for Freedom. Freedom's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Virtu Financial's score of 0.31 indicating that Virtu Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Virtu Financial beats Freedom on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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