BWFG vs. PGY, OBK, FBMS, OBNK, FSUN, OPFI, PFC, ML, TRIN, and AMAL
Should you be buying Bankwell Financial Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bankwell Financial Group include Pagaya Technologies (PGY), Origin Bancorp (OBK), First Bancshares (FBMS), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), Firstsun Capital Bancorp (FSUN), OppFi (OPFI), Premier Financial (PFC), MoneyLion (ML), Trinity Capital (TRIN), and Amalgamated Financial (AMAL). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Bankwell Financial Group vs.
Bankwell Financial Group (NASDAQ:BWFG) and Pagaya Technologies (NASDAQ:PGY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Bankwell Financial Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Pagaya Technologies. Pagaya Technologies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bankwell Financial Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
35.8% of Bankwell Financial Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.1% of Pagaya Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.5% of Bankwell Financial Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 47.6% of Pagaya Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Bankwell Financial Group presently has a consensus target price of $42.00, indicating a potential upside of 24.41%. Pagaya Technologies has a consensus target price of $20.61, indicating a potential upside of 34.98%. Given Pagaya Technologies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Pagaya Technologies is more favorable than Bankwell Financial Group.
Bankwell Financial Group has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pagaya Technologies has a beta of 5.88, meaning that its share price is 488% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Pagaya Technologies had 6 more articles in the media than Bankwell Financial Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Pagaya Technologies and 1 mentions for Bankwell Financial Group. Bankwell Financial Group's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Pagaya Technologies' score of 1.16 indicating that Bankwell Financial Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bankwell Financial Group received 159 more outperform votes than Pagaya Technologies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.50% of users gave Pagaya Technologies an outperform vote while only 63.73% of users gave Bankwell Financial Group an outperform vote.
Bankwell Financial Group has a net margin of 4.76% compared to Pagaya Technologies' net margin of -39.20%. Bankwell Financial Group's return on equity of 3.48% beat Pagaya Technologies' return on equity.
Summary
Bankwell Financial Group and Pagaya Technologies tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:BWFG) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff