FRHC vs. PIPR, VIRT, NAVI, WT, TIGR, MKTX, SF, SEIC, JEF, and MC
Should you be buying Freedom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freedom include Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Navient (NAVI), WisdomTree (WT), UP Fintech (TIGR), MarketAxess (MKTX), Stifel Financial (SF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), and Moelis & Company (MC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE:PIPR) and Freedom (NASDAQ:FRHC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Freedom has a net margin of 23.96% compared to Freedom's net margin of 7.33%. Piper Sandler Companies' return on equity of 37.71% beat Freedom's return on equity.
Piper Sandler Companies received 41 more outperform votes than Freedom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.56% of users gave Piper Sandler Companies an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Freedom an outperform vote.
Freedom has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Piper Sandler Companies.
Piper Sandler Companies has a beta of 1.4, indicating that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freedom has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Piper Sandler Companies had 11 more articles in the media than Freedom. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Piper Sandler Companies and 2 mentions for Freedom. Freedom's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Piper Sandler Companies' score of 0.31 indicating that Piper Sandler Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Piper Sandler Companies currently has a consensus target price of $181.50, suggesting a potential downside of 13.64%. Given Freedom's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Piper Sandler Companies is more favorable than Freedom.
72.8% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of Freedom shares are held by institutional investors. 3.0% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 71.1% of Freedom shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Piper Sandler Companies beats Freedom on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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