CLSK vs. WD, LU, COOP, PWP, SII, BRP, MAC, HHH, TCN, and ASB
Should you be buying CleanSpark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CleanSpark include Walker & Dunlop (WD), Lufax (LU), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Sprott (SII), The Baldwin Insurance Group (BRP), Macerich (MAC), Howard Hughes (HHH), Tricon Residential (TCN), and Associated Banc (ASB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CleanSpark (NASDAQ:CLSK) and Walker & Dunlop (NYSE:WD) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
CleanSpark currently has a consensus price target of $19.22, indicating a potential upside of 25.11%. Walker & Dunlop has a consensus price target of $100.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.24%. Given CleanSpark's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe CleanSpark is more favorable than Walker & Dunlop.
CleanSpark has a net margin of 22.41% compared to Walker & Dunlop's net margin of 8.87%. Walker & Dunlop's return on equity of 9.16% beat CleanSpark's return on equity.
Walker & Dunlop has higher revenue and earnings than CleanSpark.
CleanSpark has a beta of 4.3, indicating that its share price is 330% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walker & Dunlop has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CleanSpark had 29 more articles in the media than Walker & Dunlop. MarketBeat recorded 33 mentions for CleanSpark and 4 mentions for Walker & Dunlop. Walker & Dunlop's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat CleanSpark's score of 0.41 indicating that Walker & Dunlop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
43.1% of CleanSpark shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Walker & Dunlop shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of CleanSpark shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.3% of Walker & Dunlop shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Walker & Dunlop received 197 more outperform votes than CleanSpark when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.78% of users gave CleanSpark an outperform vote while only 60.23% of users gave Walker & Dunlop an outperform vote.
Summary
CleanSpark and Walker & Dunlop tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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