NCDL vs. GHLD, UWMC, NOAH, GABC, SVC, PLYM, ARR, QCRH, BBDC, and MFIC
Should you be buying Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending include Guild (GHLD), UWM (UWMC), Noah (NOAH), German American Bancorp (GABC), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), QCR (QCRH), Barings BDC (BBDC), and MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC). 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 companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending currently has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 5.41%. Guild has a consensus target price of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 8.03%. Given Guild's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to Guild's net margin of 3.41%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.28% beat Guild'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 company insiders. Comparatively, 78.5% of Guild shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Guild had 22 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Guild and 5 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Guild's score of 0.25 indicating that Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending and Guild tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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