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.
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE:WD) and MGIC Investment (NYSE:MTG) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Walker & Dunlop presently has a consensus price target of $100.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.70%. MGIC Investment has a consensus price target of $21.67, suggesting a potential upside of 5.90%. Given MGIC Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MGIC Investment is more favorable than Walker & Dunlop.
MGIC Investment received 163 more outperform votes than Walker & Dunlop when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.18% of users gave MGIC Investment an outperform vote while only 60.23% of users gave Walker & Dunlop an outperform vote.
Walker & Dunlop pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. MGIC Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. 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 pays out 17.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Walker & Dunlop has a beta of 1.54, indicating that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MGIC Investment has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
MGIC Investment has a net margin of 62.85% compared to Walker & Dunlop's net margin of 8.87%. MGIC Investment's return on equity of 15.00% beat Walker & Dunlop's return on equity.
81.0% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of MGIC Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of MGIC Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, MGIC Investment had 9 more articles in the media than Walker & Dunlop. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for MGIC Investment and 0 mentions for Walker & Dunlop. MGIC Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Walker & Dunlop's score of 0.00 indicating that MGIC Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Summary
MGIC Investment beats Walker & Dunlop on 15 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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