WT vs. FRHC, PIPR, VIRT, CS, NAVI, TIGR, AC, GAMI, OPY, and MS
Should you be buying WisdomTree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WisdomTree include Freedom (FRHC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Credit Suisse Group (CS), Navient (NAVI), UP Fintech (TIGR), Associated Capital Group (AC), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), Oppenheimer (OPY), and Morgan Stanley (MS). These companies are all part of the "security brokers & dealers" industry.
WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) and Freedom (NASDAQ:FRHC) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, valuation and dividends.
Freedom has higher revenue and earnings than WisdomTree.
WisdomTree received 5 more outperform votes than Freedom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave WisdomTree an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Freedom an outperform vote.
78.6% of WisdomTree shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of Freedom shares are held by institutional investors. 7.8% of WisdomTree shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 71.6% of Freedom shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
WisdomTree has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freedom has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
WisdomTree has a net margin of 29.80% compared to Freedom's net margin of 23.96%. Freedom's return on equity of 37.71% beat WisdomTree's return on equity.
WisdomTree currently has a consensus price target of $10.88, suggesting a potential upside of 12.69%. Given WisdomTree's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than Freedom.
In the previous week, WisdomTree had 4 more articles in the media than Freedom. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for WisdomTree and 1 mentions for Freedom. WisdomTree's average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Freedom's score of 0.00 indicating that WisdomTree is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
WisdomTree beats Freedom on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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