RWAY vs. QD, MDBH, GHI, VEL, WULF, LX, CORZ, CCAP, HIVE, and HUT
Should you be buying Runway Growth Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Runway Growth Finance include Qudian (QD), MDB Capital (MDBH), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), Velocity Financial (VEL), TeraWulf (WULF), LexinFintech (LX), Core Scientific (CORZ), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), and Hut 8 (HUT). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Qudian (NYSE:QD) and Runway Growth Finance (NASDAQ:RWAY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, risk and dividends.
Runway Growth Finance has a consensus target price of $12.85, suggesting a potential upside of 9.55%. Given Qudian's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Runway Growth Finance is more favorable than Qudian.
Qudian received 460 more outperform votes than Runway Growth Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.81% of users gave Qudian an outperform vote while only 44.44% of users gave Runway Growth Finance an outperform vote.
Qudian has a net margin of 47.30% compared to Qudian's net margin of 26.93%. Qudian's return on equity of 14.17% beat Runway Growth Finance's return on equity.
Runway Growth Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Qudian. Runway Growth Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qudian, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
8.1% of Qudian shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.6% of Runway Growth Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 25.7% of Qudian shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Runway Growth Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Qudian and Qudian both had 2 articles in the media. Qudian's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Runway Growth Finance's score of -0.33 indicating that Runway Growth Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Qudian has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Runway Growth Finance has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Runway Growth Finance beats Qudian on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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