EVER vs. EZPW, GSBC, CCAP, VMO, FDUS, RDFN, CFB, CORZ, HFWA, and OSBC
Should you be buying EverQuote stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of EverQuote include EZCORP (EZPW), Great Southern Bancorp (GSBC), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Redfin (RDFN), CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB), Core Scientific (CORZ), Heritage Financial (HFWA), and Old Second Bancorp (OSBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
EverQuote (NASDAQ:EVER) and EZCORP (NASDAQ:EZPW) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
91.5% of EverQuote shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of EZCORP shares are owned by institutional investors. 38.5% of EverQuote shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of EZCORP shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
EZCORP has a net margin of 4.62% compared to EverQuote's net margin of -17.81%. EZCORP's return on equity of 10.37% beat EverQuote's return on equity.
EverQuote presently has a consensus target price of $20.60, indicating a potential upside of 3.05%. EZCORP has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 62.02%. Given EZCORP's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe EZCORP is more favorable than EverQuote.
EZCORP has higher revenue and earnings than EverQuote. EverQuote is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EZCORP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, EverQuote and EverQuote both had 3 articles in the media. EZCORP's average media sentiment score of 0.01 beat EverQuote's score of -0.11 indicating that EZCORP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
EZCORP received 284 more outperform votes than EverQuote when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.24% of users gave EverQuote an outperform vote while only 56.27% of users gave EZCORP an outperform vote.
EverQuote has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EZCORP has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
EZCORP beats EverQuote on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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