NAVI vs. WDR, COWN, FRHC, PIPR, VIRT, CS, WT, AC, TIGR, and GAMI
Should you be buying Navient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navient include Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR), Cowen (COWN), Freedom (FRHC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Credit Suisse Group (CS), WisdomTree (WT), Associated Capital Group (AC), UP Fintech (TIGR), and GAMCO Investors (GAMI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Waddell & Reed Financial (NYSE:WDR) and Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Navient received 31 more outperform votes than Waddell & Reed Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.41% of users gave Navient an outperform vote while only 47.53% of users gave Waddell & Reed Financial an outperform vote.
Waddell & Reed Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Waddell & Reed Financial pays out 53.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navient pays out 41.0% 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. Navient is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than Waddell & Reed Financial. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waddell & Reed Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Waddell & Reed Financial has a net margin of 9.17% compared to Waddell & Reed Financial's net margin of 3.41%. Navient's return on equity of 14.57% beat Waddell & Reed Financial's return on equity.
97.1% of Navient shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Waddell & Reed Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of Navient shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Waddell & Reed Financial has a beta of 1.44, suggesting that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navient has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Navient had 21 more articles in the media than Waddell & Reed Financial. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Navient and 0 mentions for Waddell & Reed Financial. Waddell & Reed Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat Navient's score of 0.00 indicating that Navient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Navient has a consensus target price of $15.80, indicating a potential downside of 0.94%. Given Waddell & Reed Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Navient is more favorable than Waddell & Reed Financial.
Summary
Navient beats Waddell & Reed Financial on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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