CCAP vs. LU, UPST, PWP, IREN, CIFR, SII, ML, BITF, CORZ, and HUT
Should you be buying Crescent Capital BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crescent Capital BDC include Lufax (LU), Upstart (UPST), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Iris Energy (IREN), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Sprott (SII), MoneyLion (ML), Bitfarms (BITF), Core Scientific (CORZ), and Hut 8 (HUT). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Lufax (NYSE:LU) and Crescent Capital BDC (NASDAQ:CCAP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Lufax has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crescent Capital BDC has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Lufax pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Crescent Capital BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Lufax pays out -178.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crescent Capital BDC pays out 58.4% 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. Lufax is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Lufax had 9 more articles in the media than Crescent Capital BDC. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Lufax and 4 mentions for Crescent Capital BDC. Lufax's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Crescent Capital BDC's score of 0.25 indicating that Crescent Capital BDC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Lufax has higher revenue and earnings than Crescent Capital BDC. Lufax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crescent Capital BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crescent Capital BDC has a net margin of 53.32% compared to Crescent Capital BDC's net margin of -2.17%. Lufax's return on equity of 11.99% beat Crescent Capital BDC's return on equity.
Lufax presently has a consensus price target of $5.68, suggesting a potential upside of 148.58%. Crescent Capital BDC has a consensus price target of $18.75, suggesting a potential downside of 0.21%. Given Crescent Capital BDC's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Lufax is more favorable than Crescent Capital BDC.
69.1% of Lufax shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of Crescent Capital BDC shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Crescent Capital BDC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Crescent Capital BDC received 7 more outperform votes than Lufax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.56% of users gave Crescent Capital BDC an outperform vote while only 43.40% of users gave Lufax an outperform vote.
Summary
Crescent Capital BDC beats Lufax on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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