PRG vs. UPBD, MGRC, SKWD, XHR, GTY, CUBI, EFSC, ESRT, RC, and LTC
Should you be buying PROG stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PROG include Upbound Group (UPBD), McGrath RentCorp (MGRC), Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Getty Realty (GTY), Customers Bancorp (CUBI), Enterprise Financial Services (EFSC), Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), Ready Capital (RC), and LTC Properties (LTC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Upbound Group (NASDAQ:UPBD) and PROG (NYSE:PRG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
PROG has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Upbound Group. Upbound Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PROG, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Upbound Group pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. PROG pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Upbound Group pays out -321.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PROG pays out 19.6% 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. Upbound Group has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Upbound Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
PROG has a net margin of 4.71% compared to PROG's net margin of -0.61%. PROG's return on equity of 33.40% beat Upbound Group's return on equity.
Upbound Group has a beta of 1.99, suggesting that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PROG has a beta of 2.06, suggesting that its share price is 106% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Upbound Group currently has a consensus target price of $38.17, suggesting a potential upside of 17.15%. PROG has a consensus target price of $39.60, suggesting a potential upside of 8.91%. Given PROG's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Upbound Group is more favorable than PROG.
In the previous week, PROG had 3 more articles in the media than Upbound Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for PROG and 1 mentions for Upbound Group. PROG's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Upbound Group's score of 0.99 indicating that Upbound Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PROG received 17 more outperform votes than Upbound Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.73% of users gave PROG an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Upbound Group an outperform vote.
90.3% of Upbound Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.9% of PROG shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Upbound Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of PROG shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
PROG beats Upbound Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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