WRLD vs. RM, LPRO, ATLC, OCSL, ENVA, SLRC, BSIG, NOAH, GHLD, and BRSP
Should you be buying World Acceptance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of World Acceptance include Regional Management (RM), Open Lending (LPRO), Atlanticus (ATLC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Enova International (ENVA), SLR Investment (SLRC), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Noah (NOAH), Guild (GHLD), and BrightSpire Capital (BRSP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Regional Management (NYSE:RM) and World Acceptance (NASDAQ:WRLD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and risk.
Regional Management currently has a consensus price target of $29.00, indicating a potential downside of 4.42%. World Acceptance has a consensus price target of $56.00, indicating a potential downside of 59.98%. Given World Acceptance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Regional Management is more favorable than World Acceptance.
In the previous week, Regional Management had 10 more articles in the media than World Acceptance. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Regional Management and 9 mentions for World Acceptance. Regional Management's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat World Acceptance's score of 0.52 indicating that World Acceptance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Regional Management has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, World Acceptance has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
World Acceptance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Regional Management. World Acceptance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regional Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
World Acceptance has a net margin of 13.49% compared to World Acceptance's net margin of 4.01%. Regional Management's return on equity of 18.88% beat World Acceptance's return on equity.
98.9% of Regional Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.6% of World Acceptance shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Regional Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 40.9% of World Acceptance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Regional Management received 18 more outperform votes than World Acceptance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.40% of users gave Regional Management an outperform vote while only 55.03% of users gave World Acceptance an outperform vote.
Summary
Regional Management beats World Acceptance on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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