RKT vs. PFSI, NCDL, GHLD, UWMC, OCN, FOA, ADP, FI, WM, and TRI
Should you be buying Rocket Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rocket Companies include PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), Guild (GHLD), UWM (UWMC), Ocwen Financial (OCN), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Fiserv (FI), Waste Management (WM), and Thomson Reuters (TRI).
Rocket Companies (NYSE:RKT) and PennyMac Financial Services (NYSE:PFSI) are both business services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends and risk.
Rocket Companies has a beta of 2.44, indicating that its share price is 144% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennyMac Financial Services has a beta of 1.7, indicating that its share price is 70% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PennyMac Financial Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Rocket Companies. PennyMac Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rocket Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PennyMac Financial Services has a net margin of 10.94% compared to Rocket Companies' net margin of 0.43%. PennyMac Financial Services' return on equity of 10.48% beat Rocket Companies' return on equity.
4.6% of Rocket Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.9% of PennyMac Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 93.1% of Rocket Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of PennyMac Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Rocket Companies received 3 more outperform votes than PennyMac Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.33% of users gave Rocket Companies an outperform vote while only 63.98% of users gave PennyMac Financial Services an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PennyMac Financial Services had 1 more articles in the media than Rocket Companies. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for PennyMac Financial Services and 6 mentions for Rocket Companies. Rocket Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat PennyMac Financial Services' score of 1.23 indicating that Rocket Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rocket Companies currently has a consensus price target of $10.60, suggesting a potential downside of 25.64%. PennyMac Financial Services has a consensus price target of $97.75, suggesting a potential upside of 9.40%. Given PennyMac Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PennyMac Financial Services is more favorable than Rocket Companies.
Summary
PennyMac Financial Services beats Rocket Companies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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