UWMC vs. NCDL, GHLD, OCN, FOA, RKT, PFSI, BNL, AUB, BANF, and AVAL
Should you be buying UWM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UWM include Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), Guild (GHLD), Ocwen Financial (OCN), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Rocket Companies (RKT), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), BancFirst (BANF), and Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL).
UWM (NYSE:UWMC) and Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, dividends and institutional ownership.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to UWM's net margin of 0.79%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.28% beat UWM's return on equity.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings than UWM.
UWM received 22 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 40.00% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote while only 31.71% of users gave UWM an outperform vote.
UWM pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. UWM pays out 1,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
UWM presently has a consensus price target of $5.69, indicating a potential downside of 22.72%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a consensus price target of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.89%. Given Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is more favorable than UWM.
In the previous week, UWM's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's score of 0.00 indicating that UWM is being referred to more favorably in the media.
53.6% of UWM shares are held by institutional investors. 94.1% of UWM shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending beats UWM on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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