WT vs. NAVI, TIGR, AC, GAMI, OPY, PIPR, VIRT, FRHC, SYBT, and HMN
Should you be buying WisdomTree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WisdomTree include Navient (NAVI), UP Fintech (TIGR), Associated Capital Group (AC), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), Oppenheimer (OPY), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Freedom (FRHC), Stock Yards Bancorp (SYBT), and Horace Mann Educators (HMN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) and WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking and earnings.
Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. WisdomTree pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Navient pays out 41.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. WisdomTree pays out 17.6% 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.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than WisdomTree. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WisdomTree, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Navient has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WisdomTree has a beta of 1.48, indicating that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Navient currently has a consensus price target of $16.10, suggesting a potential upside of 5.23%. WisdomTree has a consensus price target of $10.88, suggesting a potential upside of 12.35%. Given Navient's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than Navient.
In the previous week, Navient and Navient both had 2 articles in the media. WisdomTree's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Navient's score of 0.50 indicating that Navient is being referred to more favorably in the media.
WisdomTree has a net margin of 29.80% compared to WisdomTree's net margin of 3.93%. Navient's return on equity of 16.31% beat WisdomTree's return on equity.
Navient received 411 more outperform votes than WisdomTree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.00% of users gave WisdomTree an outperform vote while only 48.68% of users gave Navient an outperform vote.
97.1% of Navient shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of WisdomTree shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.0% of Navient shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of WisdomTree shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
WisdomTree beats Navient on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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