LexinFintech (NASDAQ:LX) Vs. GDOT, LDI, PWP, SII, HKIB, BCOR, ML, ML, CURO, and OPRT
Should you be buying LexinFintech stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LexinFintech include Green Dot (GDOT), loanDepot (LDI), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Sprott (SII), AMTD International (HKIB), Blucora (BCOR), MoneyLion (ML), MoneyLion (ML), CURO Group (CURO), and Oportun Financial (OPRT). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
LexinFintech vs.
loanDepot (NYSE:LDI) and LexinFintech (NASDAQ:LX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
loanDepot presently has a consensus price target of $14.54, suggesting a potential upside of 178.58%. LexinFintech has a consensus price target of $10.44, suggesting a potential upside of 212.51%. Given LexinFintech's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe LexinFintech is more favorable than loanDepot.
In the previous week, loanDepot had 9 more articles in the media than LexinFintech. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for loanDepot and 4 mentions for LexinFintech. loanDepot's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat LexinFintech's score of 0.21 indicating that loanDepot is being referred to more favorably in the media.
LexinFintech has lower revenue, but higher earnings than loanDepot.
57.1% of loanDepot shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.2% of LexinFintech shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
LexinFintech has a net margin of 21.19% compared to loanDepot's net margin of 2.43%. loanDepot's return on equity of 64.38% beat LexinFintech's return on equity.
LexinFintech received 209 more outperform votes than loanDepot when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.20% of users gave LexinFintech an outperform vote while only 57.45% of users gave loanDepot an outperform vote.
Summary
loanDepot beats LexinFintech on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding LX and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment >-1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
LexinFintech (NASDAQ:LX) vs. Its Competitors
LexinFintech Competitors List
