WD vs. MTG, RDN, SMPL, TFSL, NYCB, WSFS, WAFD, BANC, AGM, and NWBI
Should you be buying Walker & Dunlop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walker & Dunlop include MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), TFS Financial (TFSL), New York Community Bancorp (NYCB), WSFS Financial (WSFS), WaFd (WAFD), Banc of California (BANC), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), and Northwest Bancshares (NWBI). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
MGIC Investment (NYSE:MTG) and Walker & Dunlop (NYSE:WD) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
95.6% of MGIC Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of MGIC Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by company 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.
MGIC Investment has a net margin of 62.85% compared to MGIC Investment's net margin of 8.87%. Walker & Dunlop's return on equity of 15.00% beat MGIC Investment's return on equity.
MGIC Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Walker & Dunlop pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. MGIC Investment pays out 17.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Walker & Dunlop pays out 94.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MGIC Investment has raised its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Walker & Dunlop has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Walker & Dunlop is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
MGIC Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Walker & Dunlop. MGIC Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Walker & Dunlop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
MGIC Investment has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walker & Dunlop has a beta of 1.54, meaning that its stock price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MGIC Investment presently has a consensus price target of $21.83, suggesting a potential upside of 4.27%. Walker & Dunlop has a consensus price target of $100.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.51%. Given MGIC Investment's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Walker & Dunlop is more favorable than MGIC Investment.
In the previous week, MGIC Investment had 3 more articles in the media than Walker & Dunlop. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for MGIC Investment and 2 mentions for Walker & Dunlop. Walker & Dunlop's average media sentiment score of 1.32 beat MGIC Investment's score of 0.54 indicating that MGIC Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MGIC Investment received 164 more outperform votes than Walker & Dunlop when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.22% of users gave MGIC Investment an outperform vote while only 60.23% of users gave Walker & Dunlop an outperform vote.
Summary
MGIC Investment beats Walker & Dunlop on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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