APLD vs. NRDS, MLP, ALRS, HRZN, NFBK, MYN, CTO, PGC, ESQ, and CCNE
Should you be buying Applied Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Applied Digital include NerdWallet (NRDS), Maui Land & Pineapple (MLP), Alerus Financial (ALRS), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Peapack-Gladstone Financial (PGC), Esquire Financial (ESQ), and CNB Financial (CCNE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
NerdWallet (NASDAQ:NRDS) and Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and earnings.
NerdWallet currently has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.28%. Applied Digital has a consensus target price of $9.60, indicating a potential upside of 119.18%. Given NerdWallet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Applied Digital is more favorable than NerdWallet.
NerdWallet has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Applied Digital has a beta of 4.29, suggesting that its share price is 329% more volatile than the S&P 500.
38.8% of NerdWallet shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.7% of Applied Digital shares are held by institutional investors. 45.9% of NerdWallet shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 23.7% of Applied Digital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Applied Digital had 8 more articles in the media than NerdWallet. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Applied Digital and 0 mentions for NerdWallet. Applied Digital's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat NerdWallet's score of 0.56 indicating that NerdWallet is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NerdWallet has higher revenue and earnings than Applied Digital. NerdWallet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Applied Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
NerdWallet has a net margin of -2.10% compared to NerdWallet's net margin of -61.84%. Applied Digital's return on equity of -3.36% beat NerdWallet's return on equity.
NerdWallet received 12 more outperform votes than Applied Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Applied Digital an outperform vote while only 59.52% of users gave NerdWallet an outperform vote.
Summary
NerdWallet and Applied Digital tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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