WD vs. LU, CLSK, PWP, COOP, SII, HUT, WULF, MCY, DNP, and BHF
Should you be buying Walker & Dunlop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walker & Dunlop include Lufax (LU), CleanSpark (CLSK), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), Sprott (SII), Hut 8 (HUT), TeraWulf (WULF), Mercury General (MCY), DNP Select Income Fund (DNP), and Brighthouse Financial (BHF). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Lufax (NYSE:LU) and Walker & Dunlop (NYSE:WD) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, profitability and dividends.
Walker & Dunlop has a net margin of 10.18% compared to Walker & Dunlop's net margin of -2.17%. Lufax's return on equity of 9.15% beat Walker & Dunlop's return on equity.
Lufax has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walker & Dunlop has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
69.1% of Lufax shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Walker & Dunlop received 295 more outperform votes than Lufax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.23% of users gave Walker & Dunlop an outperform vote while only 43.40% of users gave Lufax an outperform vote.
Lufax currently has a consensus price target of $6.91, suggesting a potential upside of 49.01%. Walker & Dunlop has a consensus price target of $100.00, suggesting a potential upside of 3.38%. Given Walker & Dunlop's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Lufax is more favorable than Walker & Dunlop.
Lufax pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Walker & Dunlop pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Lufax pays out -178.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Walker & Dunlop pays out 81.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Walker & Dunlop has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years. Lufax is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Lufax has higher revenue and earnings than Walker & Dunlop. Lufax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Walker & Dunlop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Walker & Dunlop had 11 more articles in the media than Lufax. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Walker & Dunlop and 6 mentions for Lufax. Walker & Dunlop's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Lufax's score of 0.49 indicating that Lufax is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Walker & Dunlop beats Lufax on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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