FSIC vs. RDN, UBSI, PFSI, KRG, THG, FG, LAZ, AEL, ONB, and SLM
Should you be buying FS Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of FS Investment include Radian Group (RDN), United Bankshares (UBSI), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), F&G Annuities & Life (FG), Lazard (LAZ), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), Old National Bancorp (ONB), and SLM (SLM). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Radian Group (NYSE:RDN) and FS Investment (NYSE:FSIC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
95.3% of Radian Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 29.5% of FS Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Radian Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of FS Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Radian Group has a net margin of 48.51% compared to Radian Group's net margin of -3.73%. FS Investment's return on equity of 14.75% beat Radian Group's return on equity.
Radian Group has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FS Investment has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Radian Group received 192 more outperform votes than FS Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.23% of users gave Radian Group an outperform vote while only 58.56% of users gave FS Investment an outperform vote.
Radian Group pays an annual dividend of $0.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. FS Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Radian Group pays out 25.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FS Investment pays out 91.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Radian Group has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Radian Group presently has a consensus price target of $30.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.15%. Given FS Investment's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Radian Group is more favorable than FS Investment.
Radian Group has higher revenue and earnings than FS Investment. Radian Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FS Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Radian Group had 5 more articles in the media than FS Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Radian Group and 0 mentions for FS Investment. FS Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Radian Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Radian Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Radian Group beats FS Investment on 16 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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