GHLD vs. NCDL, UWMC, OCN, BSIG, BRDG, SLRC, HQH, SBSI, RWT, and PDM
Should you be buying Guild stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guild include Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), UWM (UWMC), Ocwen Financial (OCN), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), SLR Investment (SLRC), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Redwood Trust (RWT), and Piedmont Office Realty Trust (PDM). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) and Guild (NYSE:GHLD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and media sentiment.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's net margin of 3.41%. Guild's return on equity of 12.28% beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity.
Guild received 12 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.03% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Guild.
17.5% of Guild shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 78.0% of Guild shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Guild pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Guild pays out 238.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending presently has a consensus price target of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.71%. Guild has a consensus price target of $15.60, indicating a potential upside of 9.94%. Given Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
In the previous week, Guild had 20 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Guild and 5 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Guild's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's score of 0.19 indicating that Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending beats Guild on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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