MFIN vs. CPSS, XYF, SNFCA, CNF, BTM, BCG, OPRT, ARBK, HIVE, and LX
Should you be buying Medallion Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Medallion Financial include Consumer Portfolio Services (CPSS), X Financial (XYF), Security National Financial (SNFCA), CNFinance (CNF), Bitcoin Depot (BTM), Binah Capital Group (BCG), Oportun Financial (OPRT), Argo Blockchain (ARBK), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), and LexinFintech (LX). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Medallion Financial (NASDAQ:MFIN) and Consumer Portfolio Services (NASDAQ:CPSS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and community ranking.
40.6% of Medallion Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.6% of Consumer Portfolio Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.4% of Medallion Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 67.7% of Consumer Portfolio Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Medallion Financial has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its share price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Consumer Portfolio Services has a beta of 2.02, indicating that its share price is 102% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Medallion Financial had 9 more articles in the media than Consumer Portfolio Services. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Medallion Financial and 1 mentions for Consumer Portfolio Services. Consumer Portfolio Services' average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Medallion Financial's score of 0.94 indicating that Consumer Portfolio Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Medallion Financial presently has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 52.48%. Given Medallion Financial's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Medallion Financial is more favorable than Consumer Portfolio Services.
Medallion Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Consumer Portfolio Services. Medallion Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Consumer Portfolio Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Medallion Financial has a net margin of 17.96% compared to Consumer Portfolio Services' net margin of 12.88%. Consumer Portfolio Services' return on equity of 17.46% beat Medallion Financial's return on equity.
Medallion Financial received 63 more outperform votes than Consumer Portfolio Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.66% of users gave Medallion Financial an outperform vote while only 60.50% of users gave Consumer Portfolio Services an outperform vote.
Summary
Medallion Financial beats Consumer Portfolio Services on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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