NAVI vs. WT, AC, GAMI, TIGR, VIRT, PIPR, FRHC, PEB, CIXXF, and WAFD
Should you be buying Navient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navient include WisdomTree (WT), Associated Capital Group (AC), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), UP Fintech (TIGR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Freedom (FRHC), Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (PEB), CI Financial (CIXXF), and WaFd (WAFD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) and Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation and institutional ownership.
WisdomTree has a net margin of 29.80% compared to WisdomTree's net margin of 3.93%. Navient's return on equity of 16.31% beat WisdomTree's return on equity.
WisdomTree has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navient has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than WisdomTree. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WisdomTree, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Navient received 411 more outperform votes than WisdomTree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.00% of users gave WisdomTree an outperform vote while only 48.68% of users gave Navient an outperform vote.
WisdomTree pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. WisdomTree pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navient pays out 41.0% 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.
WisdomTree presently has a consensus price target of $10.88, suggesting a potential upside of 22.05%. Navient has a consensus price target of $16.10, suggesting a potential upside of 5.71%. Given Navient's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than Navient.
In the previous week, Navient had 14 more articles in the media than WisdomTree. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Navient and 14 mentions for WisdomTree. Navient's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat WisdomTree's score of -0.04 indicating that WisdomTree is being referred to more favorably in the media.
78.6% of WisdomTree shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Navient shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of WisdomTree shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of Navient 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.
Summary
WisdomTree beats Navient on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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