UWMC vs. GHLD, NCDL, OCN, HUT, LPRO, PHK, AC, TIGR, CFFN, and PAX
Should you be buying UWM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UWM include Guild (GHLD), Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), Ocwen Financial (OCN), Hut 8 (HUT), Open Lending (LPRO), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), Associated Capital Group (AC), UP Fintech (TIGR), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), and Patria Investments (PAX). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Guild (NYSE:GHLD) and UWM (NYSE:UWMC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.
Guild pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. UWM pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Guild pays out 238.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. UWM pays out 1,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Guild is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of UWM shares are held by institutional investors. 78.0% of Guild shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 94.2% of UWM shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
UWM received 10 more outperform votes than Guild when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 41.03% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 32.10% of users gave UWM an outperform vote.
UWM has higher revenue and earnings than Guild. Guild is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than UWM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Guild had 16 more articles in the media than UWM. MarketBeat recorded 27 mentions for Guild and 11 mentions for UWM. Guild's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat UWM's score of 0.19 indicating that UWM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Guild has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UWM has a beta of 1.62, suggesting that its stock price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Guild has a net margin of 3.41% compared to Guild's net margin of 0.79%. Guild's return on equity of 6.96% beat UWM's return on equity.
Guild currently has a consensus target price of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 9.94%. UWM has a consensus target price of $5.83, suggesting a potential downside of 19.26%. Given UWM's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Guild is more favorable than UWM.
Summary
Guild and UWM tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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