WD vs. CLSK, LU, PWP, COOP, SII, EPR, DNP, BXMT, HTGC, and BRP
Should you be buying Walker & Dunlop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walker & Dunlop include CleanSpark (CLSK), Lufax (LU), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), Sprott (SII), EPR Properties (EPR), DNP Select Income Fund (DNP), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), Hercules Capital (HTGC), and BRP Group (BRP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CleanSpark (NASDAQ:CLSK) and Walker & Dunlop (NYSE:WD) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
CleanSpark presently has a consensus target price of $19.22, suggesting a potential upside of 10.25%. Walker & Dunlop has a consensus target price of $100.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.49%. Given Walker & Dunlop's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe CleanSpark is more favorable than Walker & Dunlop.
In the previous week, Walker & Dunlop had 9 more articles in the media than CleanSpark. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Walker & Dunlop and 11 mentions for CleanSpark. CleanSpark's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Walker & Dunlop's score of 0.00 indicating that Walker & Dunlop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Walker & Dunlop has a net margin of 8.87% compared to Walker & Dunlop's net margin of -38.09%. CleanSpark's return on equity of 9.16% beat Walker & Dunlop's return on equity.
43.1% of CleanSpark shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.0% of Walker & Dunlop shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of CleanSpark shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.5% of Walker & Dunlop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Walker & Dunlop received 200 more outperform votes than CleanSpark when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.29% of users gave CleanSpark an outperform vote while only 60.23% of users gave Walker & Dunlop an outperform vote.
CleanSpark has a beta of 4.3, suggesting that its share price is 330% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Walker & Dunlop has a beta of 1.54, suggesting that its share price is 54% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Walker & Dunlop has higher revenue and earnings than CleanSpark.
Summary
Walker & Dunlop beats CleanSpark on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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