FRHC vs. WDR, JEF, SEIC, SF, MKTX, PIPR, VIRT, CS, NAVI, and WT
Should you be buying Freedom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freedom include Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Stifel Financial (SF), MarketAxess (MKTX), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Credit Suisse Group (CS), Navient (NAVI), and WisdomTree (WT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Waddell & Reed Financial (NYSE:WDR) and Freedom (NASDAQ:FRHC) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and dividends.
1.3% of Freedom shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Waddell & Reed Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 71.6% of Freedom shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Freedom has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Waddell & Reed Financial.
Waddell & Reed Financial has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freedom has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Waddell & Reed Financial received 385 more outperform votes than Freedom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.93% of users gave Waddell & Reed Financial an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Freedom an outperform vote.
Freedom has a net margin of 23.96% compared to Freedom's net margin of 9.17%. Waddell & Reed Financial's return on equity of 37.71% beat Freedom's return on equity.
In the previous week, Waddell & Reed Financial and Waddell & Reed Financial both had 2 articles in the media. Waddell & Reed Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Freedom's score of 0.00 indicating that Freedom is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Freedom beats Waddell & Reed Financial on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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