UWMC vs. GHLD, NCDL, OCN, CFFN, INN, CHCT, NXP, KREF, TRTX, and AC
Should you be buying UWM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UWM include Guild (GHLD), Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), Ocwen Financial (OCN), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Summit Hotel Properties (INN), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), and Associated Capital Group (AC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Guild (NYSE:GHLD) and UWM (NYSE:UWMC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Guild has a net margin of 3.41% compared to Guild's net margin of 0.79%. Guild's return on equity of 6.96% beat UWM's return on equity.
Guild has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UWM has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
17.5% of Guild shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of UWM shares are owned by institutional investors. 78.5% of Guild shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 94.2% of UWM shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
UWM received 10 more outperform votes than Guild when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 41.03% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 32.10% of users gave UWM an outperform vote.
UWM has higher revenue and earnings than Guild. Guild is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UWM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Guild had 15 more articles in the media than UWM. MarketBeat recorded 28 mentions for Guild and 13 mentions for UWM. UWM's average media sentiment score of 0.27 beat Guild's score of 0.25 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Guild currently has a consensus target price of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 7.44%. UWM has a consensus target price of $5.83, suggesting a potential downside of 20.63%. Given UWM's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Guild is more favorable than UWM.
Summary
Guild and UWM tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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