NRDS vs. CARS, YALA, REAL, APLD, BCSF, HCI, PGRE, EIG, PEBO, and FBRT
Should you be buying NerdWallet stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NerdWallet include Cars.com (CARS), Yalla Group (YALA), RealReal (REAL), Applied Digital (APLD), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), HCI Group (HCI), Paramount Group (PGRE), Employers (EIG), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), and Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT).
Cars.com (NYSE:CARS) and NerdWallet (NASDAQ:NRDS) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, dividends and community ranking.
Cars.com has a beta of 2.05, suggesting that its stock price is 105% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NerdWallet has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Cars.com received 207 more outperform votes than NerdWallet when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.80% of users gave Cars.com an outperform vote while only 59.52% of users gave NerdWallet an outperform vote.
89.2% of Cars.com shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of NerdWallet shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Cars.com shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 45.9% of NerdWallet shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cars.com has higher revenue and earnings than NerdWallet. NerdWallet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cars.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cars.com has a net margin of 15.34% compared to Cars.com's net margin of -2.10%. NerdWallet's return on equity of 22.28% beat Cars.com's return on equity.
Cars.com presently has a consensus price target of $24.00, indicating a potential upside of 29.94%. NerdWallet has a consensus price target of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 18.62%. Given NerdWallet's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Cars.com is more favorable than NerdWallet.
In the previous week, Cars.com had 74 more articles in the media than NerdWallet. MarketBeat recorded 74 mentions for Cars.com and 0 mentions for NerdWallet. Cars.com's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat NerdWallet's score of -0.01 indicating that NerdWallet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Cars.com beats NerdWallet on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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