LDI vs. HUT, CCAP, CORZ, WULF, VEL, RWAY, QD, MDBH, SII, and GHI
Should you be buying loanDepot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of loanDepot include Hut 8 (HUT), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), Core Scientific (CORZ), TeraWulf (WULF), Velocity Financial (VEL), Runway Growth Finance (RWAY), Qudian (QD), MDB Capital (MDBH), Sprott (SII), and Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Hut 8 (NASDAQ:HUT) and loanDepot (NYSE:LDI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
loanDepot received 6 more outperform votes than Hut 8 when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.50% of users gave Hut 8 an outperform vote while only 38.16% of users gave loanDepot an outperform vote.
Hut 8 currently has a consensus price target of $12.25, indicating a potential upside of 23.12%. loanDepot has a consensus price target of $2.25, indicating a potential upside of 8.17%. Given loanDepot's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Hut 8 is more favorable than loanDepot.
In the previous week, Hut 8 had 26 more articles in the media than loanDepot. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for Hut 8 and 3 mentions for loanDepot. Hut 8's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat loanDepot's score of 0.31 indicating that loanDepot is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
loanDepot has a net margin of -10.26% compared to loanDepot's net margin of -184.31%. Hut 8's return on equity of -19.52% beat loanDepot's return on equity.
Hut 8 has a beta of 3.98, indicating that its share price is 298% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, loanDepot has a beta of 3.54, indicating that its share price is 254% more volatile than the S&P 500.
31.8% of Hut 8 shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.4% of loanDepot shares are held by institutional investors. 12.0% of Hut 8 shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 83.0% of loanDepot shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
loanDepot has higher revenue and earnings than Hut 8.
Summary
loanDepot beats Hut 8 on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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