MGRC vs. UPBD, PRG, OUT, GNW, WSFS, TCBI, FULT, DBRG, FHB, and CDP
Should you be buying McGrath RentCorp stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McGrath RentCorp include Upbound Group (UPBD), PROG (PRG), OUTFRONT Media (OUT), Genworth Financial (GNW), WSFS Financial (WSFS), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), Fulton Financial (FULT), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), First Hawaiian (FHB), and COPT Defense Properties (CDP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Upbound Group (NASDAQ:UPBD) and McGrath RentCorp (NASDAQ:MGRC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Upbound Group currently has a consensus target price of $38.17, indicating a potential upside of 24.04%. McGrath RentCorp has a consensus target price of $116.00, indicating a potential upside of 6.42%. Given McGrath RentCorp's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Upbound Group is more favorable than McGrath RentCorp.
McGrath RentCorp has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Upbound Group. Upbound Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McGrath RentCorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
McGrath RentCorp received 247 more outperform votes than Upbound Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.48% of users gave McGrath RentCorp an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Upbound Group an outperform vote.
90.3% of Upbound Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.1% of McGrath RentCorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.5% of Upbound Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of McGrath RentCorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Upbound Group pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. McGrath RentCorp pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Upbound Group pays out -321.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McGrath RentCorp pays out 37.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Upbound Group has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and McGrath RentCorp has raised its dividend for 32 consecutive years. Upbound Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
McGrath RentCorp has a net margin of 14.70% compared to McGrath RentCorp's net margin of -0.61%. McGrath RentCorp's return on equity of 33.40% beat Upbound Group's return on equity.
Upbound Group has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its stock price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McGrath RentCorp has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Upbound Group had 5 more articles in the media than McGrath RentCorp. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Upbound Group and 9 mentions for McGrath RentCorp. Upbound Group's average media sentiment score of 1.06 beat McGrath RentCorp's score of 0.49 indicating that McGrath RentCorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Upbound Group and McGrath RentCorp tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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