LX vs. GHI, HIVE, MDBH, XYF, MFIN, CPSS, SNFCA, OPRT, CNF, and BTM
Should you be buying LexinFintech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LexinFintech include Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), MDB Capital (MDBH), X Financial (XYF), Medallion Financial (MFIN), Consumer Portfolio Services (CPSS), Security National Financial (SNFCA), Oportun Financial (OPRT), CNFinance (CNF), and Bitcoin Depot (BTM). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Greystone Housing Impact Investors (NYSE:GHI) and LexinFintech (NASDAQ:LX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
LexinFintech received 237 more outperform votes than Greystone Housing Impact Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Greystone Housing Impact Investors an outperform vote while only 59.70% of users gave LexinFintech an outperform vote.
Greystone Housing Impact Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. LexinFintech pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.2%. Greystone Housing Impact Investors pays out 78.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. LexinFintech pays out 14.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Greystone Housing Impact Investors has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Greystone Housing Impact Investors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Greystone Housing Impact Investors had 4 more articles in the media than LexinFintech. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Greystone Housing Impact Investors and 3 mentions for LexinFintech. Greystone Housing Impact Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat LexinFintech's score of 0.33 indicating that LexinFintech is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Greystone Housing Impact Investors has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LexinFintech has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Greystone Housing Impact Investors currently has a consensus target price of $18.25, suggesting a potential upside of 19.13%. LexinFintech has a consensus target price of $2.66, suggesting a potential upside of 37.82%. Given Greystone Housing Impact Investors' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe LexinFintech is more favorable than Greystone Housing Impact Investors.
Greystone Housing Impact Investors has a net margin of 45.87% compared to Greystone Housing Impact Investors' net margin of 8.15%. LexinFintech's return on equity of 11.65% beat Greystone Housing Impact Investors' return on equity.
9.0% of Greystone Housing Impact Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Greystone Housing Impact Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 27.8% of LexinFintech shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
LexinFintech has higher revenue and earnings than Greystone Housing Impact Investors. LexinFintech is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Greystone Housing Impact Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Greystone Housing Impact Investors beats LexinFintech on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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