HF vs. CGBD, PDM, ROOT, HUT, SBSI, BRKL, MQY, NXRT, BFS, and BRSP
Should you be buying HFF stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of HFF include Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), Piedmont Office Realty Trust (PDM), Root (ROOT), Hut 8 (HUT), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), NexPoint Residential Trust (NXRT), Saul Centers (BFS), and BrightSpire Capital (BRSP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) and HFF (NYSE:HF) 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.
HFF has higher revenue and earnings than Carlyle Secured Lending. HFF is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carlyle Secured Lending, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HFF has a beta of 1.59, suggesting that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carlyle Secured Lending presently has a consensus price target of $16.00, suggesting a potential downside of 6.38%. Given HFF's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Carlyle Secured Lending is more favorable than HFF.
HFF received 99 more outperform votes than Carlyle Secured Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.45% of users gave HFF an outperform vote while only 57.72% of users gave Carlyle Secured Lending an outperform vote.
24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of HFF shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.9% of HFF shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Carlyle Secured Lending had 3 more articles in the media than HFF. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending and 1 mentions for HFF. HFF's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Carlyle Secured Lending's score of 0.00 indicating that Carlyle Secured Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Carlyle Secured Lending has a net margin of 38.19% compared to Carlyle Secured Lending's net margin of 18.38%. Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity of 41.56% beat HFF's return on equity.
Summary
HFF beats Carlyle Secured Lending on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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