FRHC vs. PIPR, VIRT, NAVI, WT, TIGR, SF, MKTX, FUTU, JEF, and SEIC
Should you be buying Freedom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freedom include Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Navient (NAVI), WisdomTree (WT), UP Fintech (TIGR), Stifel Financial (SF), MarketAxess (MKTX), Futu (FUTU), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), and SEI Investments (SEIC).
Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE:PIPR) and Freedom (NASDAQ:FRHC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Piper Sandler Companies received 34 more outperform votes than Freedom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.13% of users gave Piper Sandler Companies an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Freedom an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Piper Sandler Companies had 5 more articles in the media than Freedom. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Piper Sandler Companies and 3 mentions for Freedom. Freedom's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Piper Sandler Companies' score of 0.25 indicating that Piper Sandler Companies is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Piper Sandler Companies has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freedom has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Freedom has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Piper Sandler Companies.
Piper Sandler Companies presently has a consensus price target of $181.50, indicating a potential downside of 1.84%. Given Freedom's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Piper Sandler Companies is more favorable than Freedom.
Freedom has a net margin of 23.96% compared to Freedom's net margin of 6.33%. Piper Sandler Companies' return on equity of 37.71% beat Freedom's return on equity.
72.8% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of Freedom shares are held by institutional investors. 3.3% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 71.1% of Freedom shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Piper Sandler Companies beats Freedom on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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