FOA vs. OCN, JMM, LOAN, UBOH, GRYP, TCBC, PBHC, SELF, LRFC, and BRBS
Should you be buying Finance of America Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Finance of America Companies include Ocwen Financial (OCN), Nuveen Multi-Market Income Fund (JMM), Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), United Bancshares (UBOH), Gryphon Digital Mining (GRYP), TC Bancshares (TCBC), Pathfinder Bancorp (PBHC), Global Self Storage (SELF), Logan Ridge Finance (LRFC), and Blue Ridge Bankshares (BRBS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Ocwen Financial (NYSE:OCN) and Finance of America Companies (NYSE:FOA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Ocwen Financial has a beta of 1.92, suggesting that its share price is 92% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Finance of America Companies has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ocwen Financial currently has a consensus target price of $41.00, indicating a potential upside of 58.24%. Finance of America Companies has a consensus target price of $1.80, indicating a potential upside of 147.83%. Given Ocwen Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Finance of America Companies is more favorable than Ocwen Financial.
Ocwen Financial received 321 more outperform votes than Finance of America Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.30% of users gave Ocwen Financial an outperform vote while only 47.22% of users gave Finance of America Companies an outperform vote.
70.2% of Ocwen Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of Finance of America Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 7.6% of Ocwen Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.6% of Finance of America Companies shares are held 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.
Ocwen Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Finance of America Companies. Finance of America Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ocwen Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Ocwen Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Finance of America Companies. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Ocwen Financial and 1 mentions for Finance of America Companies. Ocwen Financial's average media sentiment score of 3.00 beat Finance of America Companies' score of 0.21 indicating that Finance of America Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ocwen Financial has a net margin of 0.63% compared to Ocwen Financial's net margin of 0.00%. Finance of America Companies' return on equity of 13.66% beat Ocwen Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Ocwen Financial beats Finance of America Companies on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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