APLD vs. NRDS, KTF, ATLC, MCI, TYG, VALU, TPVG, SMBK, ACRE, and SHBI
Should you be buying Applied Digital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Applied Digital include NerdWallet (NRDS), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), Atlanticus (ATLC), Barings Corporate Investors (MCI), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), Value Line (VALU), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), SmartFinancial (SMBK), Ares Commercial Real Estate (ACRE), and Shore Bancshares (SHBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) and NerdWallet (NASDAQ:NRDS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
65.7% of Applied Digital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of NerdWallet shares are held by institutional investors. 23.7% of Applied Digital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 45.9% of NerdWallet shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NerdWallet has higher revenue and earnings than Applied Digital. NerdWallet is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Applied Digital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Applied Digital presently has a consensus target price of $9.20, indicating a potential upside of 210.81%. NerdWallet has a consensus target price of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.04%. Given Applied Digital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Applied Digital is more favorable than NerdWallet.
NerdWallet received 14 more outperform votes than Applied Digital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Applied Digital an outperform vote while only 59.52% of users gave NerdWallet an outperform vote.
NerdWallet has a net margin of -2.10% compared to Applied Digital's net margin of -61.84%. NerdWallet's return on equity of -3.36% beat Applied Digital's return on equity.
Applied Digital has a beta of 4.29, meaning that its share price is 329% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NerdWallet has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NerdWallet had 13 more articles in the media than Applied Digital. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for NerdWallet and 4 mentions for Applied Digital. NerdWallet's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Applied Digital's score of 0.67 indicating that NerdWallet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
NerdWallet beats Applied Digital on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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