PFSI vs. EPRT, RDN, HOMB, THG, ESGR, VNO, LAZ, KRG, UBSI, and WTM
Should you be buying PennyMac Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennyMac Financial Services include Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), Radian Group (RDN), Home Bancshares, Inc. (Conway, AR) (HOMB), The Hanover Insurance Group (THG), Enstar Group (ESGR), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), Lazard (LAZ), Kite Realty Group Trust (KRG), United Bankshares (UBSI), and White Mountains Insurance Group (WTM). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
PennyMac Financial Services (NYSE:PFSI) and Essential Properties Realty Trust (NYSE:EPRT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, PennyMac Financial Services had 5 more articles in the media than Essential Properties Realty Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for PennyMac Financial Services and 1 mentions for Essential Properties Realty Trust. Essential Properties Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat PennyMac Financial Services' score of 0.45 indicating that Essential Properties Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
57.9% of PennyMac Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.0% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of PennyMac Financial Services shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Essential Properties Realty Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PennyMac Financial Services currently has a consensus price target of $97.75, suggesting a potential upside of 7.16%. Essential Properties Realty Trust has a consensus price target of $28.56, suggesting a potential upside of 7.15%. Given PennyMac Financial Services' higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PennyMac Financial Services is more favorable than Essential Properties Realty Trust.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has a net margin of 51.34% compared to PennyMac Financial Services' net margin of 10.94%. PennyMac Financial Services' return on equity of 10.48% beat Essential Properties Realty Trust's return on equity.
PennyMac Financial Services received 202 more outperform votes than Essential Properties Realty Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.98% of users gave PennyMac Financial Services an outperform vote while only 62.54% of users gave Essential Properties Realty Trust an outperform vote.
PennyMac Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Essential Properties Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. PennyMac Financial Services pays out 27.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Essential Properties Realty Trust pays out 92.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
PennyMac Financial Services has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Essential Properties Realty Trust has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Essential Properties Realty Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PennyMac Financial Services. Essential Properties Realty Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PennyMac Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
PennyMac Financial Services beats Essential Properties Realty Trust on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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