HALL vs. WHLR, PW, OXBR, SBNY, SNTG, LGHL, OIG, UNAM, SVVC, and NLIT
Should you be buying Hallmark Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hallmark Financial Services include Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (WHLR), Power REIT (PW), Oxbridge Re (OXBR), Signature Bank (SBNY), Sentage (SNTG), Lion Group (LGHL), Orbital Infrastructure Group (OIG), Unico American (UNAM), Firsthand Technology Value Fund (SVVC), and Northern Lights Acquisition (NLIT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Hallmark Financial Services vs.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust (NASDAQ:WHLR) and Hallmark Financial Services (NASDAQ:HALL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Hallmark Financial Services. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hallmark Financial Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
53.8% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.1% of Hallmark Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.6% of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 28.7% of Hallmark Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a beta of 2.61, meaning that its share price is 161% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hallmark Financial Services has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust has a net margin of -12.58% compared to Hallmark Financial Services' net margin of -71.70%. Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's return on equity of 0.00% beat Hallmark Financial Services' return on equity.
In the previous week, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust and Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust both had 3 articles in the media. Hallmark Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust's score of 0.95 indicating that Hallmark Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust received 14 more outperform votes than Hallmark Financial Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.71% of users gave Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 49.28% of users gave Hallmark Financial Services an outperform vote.
Summary
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust beats Hallmark Financial Services on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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