NAVI vs. WT, AC, VIRT, TIGR, GAMI, PIPR, FRHC, UPBD, USA, and OBDE
Should you be buying Navient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navient include WisdomTree (WT), Associated Capital Group (AC), Virtu Financial (VIRT), UP Fintech (TIGR), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Freedom (FRHC), Upbound Group (UPBD), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), and Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) and Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than WisdomTree. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WisdomTree, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
WisdomTree has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navient has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.6% of WisdomTree shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Navient shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of WisdomTree shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 26.9% of Navient shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, WisdomTree had 3 more articles in the media than Navient. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for WisdomTree and 4 mentions for Navient. Navient's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat WisdomTree's score of 0.68 indicating that WisdomTree is being referred to more favorably in the media.
WisdomTree pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. WisdomTree pays out 18.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navient pays out 36.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
WisdomTree has a net margin of 29.38% compared to WisdomTree's net margin of 4.72%. Navient's return on equity of 15.15% beat WisdomTree's return on equity.
WisdomTree presently has a consensus target price of $9.85, indicating a potential upside of 7.18%. Navient has a consensus target price of $16.90, indicating a potential downside of 2.54%. Given Navient's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than Navient.
Navient received 415 more outperform votes than WisdomTree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave WisdomTree an outperform vote while only 48.96% of users gave Navient an outperform vote.
Summary
WisdomTree beats Navient on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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