CLSK vs. WD, BUR, COOP, LU, PWP, SII, MAIN, COLB, UMBF, and FRHC
Should you be buying CleanSpark stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CleanSpark include Walker & Dunlop (WD), Burford Capital (BUR), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), Lufax (LU), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Sprott (SII), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Columbia Banking System (COLB), UMB Financial (UMBF), and Freedom (FRHC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE:WD) and CleanSpark (NASDAQ:CLSK) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
Walker & Dunlop currently has a consensus price target of $100.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.18%. CleanSpark has a consensus price target of $19.22, suggesting a potential upside of 8.63%. Given Walker & Dunlop's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe CleanSpark is more favorable than Walker & Dunlop.
In the previous week, CleanSpark had 16 more articles in the media than Walker & Dunlop. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for CleanSpark and 0 mentions for Walker & Dunlop. Walker & Dunlop's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat CleanSpark's score of 0.00 indicating that CleanSpark is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
81.0% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.1% of CleanSpark shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of CleanSpark shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Walker & Dunlop has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CleanSpark has a beta of 4.3, suggesting that its stock price is 330% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CleanSpark has a net margin of 22.41% compared to CleanSpark's net margin of 8.87%. CleanSpark's return on equity of 9.16% beat Walker & Dunlop's return on equity.
Walker & Dunlop has higher revenue and earnings than CleanSpark.
Summary
CleanSpark beats Walker & Dunlop on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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