GHLD vs. NCDL, UWMC, AMSF, MQY, SLRC, PDM, BFS, HQH, BRDG, and BSIG
Should you be buying Guild stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guild include Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), UWM (UWMC), AMERISAFE (AMSF), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), SLR Investment (SLRC), Piedmont Office Realty Trust (PDM), Saul Centers (BFS), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), and BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Guild (NYSE:GHLD) and Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. 78.0% of Guild shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Guild.
Guild presently has a consensus target price of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 10.95%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.31%. Given Guild's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
Guild received 12 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.03% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to Guild's net margin of 3.41%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.28% beat Guild's return on equity.
In the previous week, Guild had 19 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Guild and 2 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Guild's average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's score of 0.00 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Guild beats Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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