RWAY vs. SII, WULF, CMPO, CIFR, PGY, OPFI, ML, XYF, JFIN, and FUFU
Should you be buying Runway Growth Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Runway Growth Finance include Sprott (SII), TeraWulf (WULF), CompoSecure (CMPO), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Pagaya Technologies (PGY), OppFi (OPFI), MoneyLion (ML), X Financial (XYF), Jiayin Group (JFIN), and BitFuFu (FUFU). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Runway Growth Finance vs.
Sprott (NYSE:SII) and Runway Growth Finance (NASDAQ:RWAY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Runway Growth Finance has a consensus price target of $10.80, indicating a potential upside of 11.74%. Given Runway Growth Finance's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Runway Growth Finance is more favorable than Sprott.
Runway Growth Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Sprott. Runway Growth Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Sprott, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Sprott and Sprott both had 3 articles in the media. Runway Growth Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.62 beat Sprott's score of 1.32 indicating that Runway Growth Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Sprott has a net margin of 27.38% compared to Runway Growth Finance's net margin of 27.05%. Sprott's return on equity of 15.02% beat Runway Growth Finance's return on equity.
Runway Growth Finance received 10 more outperform votes than Sprott when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 44.00% of users gave Runway Growth Finance an outperform vote while only 41.38% of users gave Sprott an outperform vote.
Sprott pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Runway Growth Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Sprott pays out 62.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Runway Growth Finance pays out 79.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Sprott has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Sprott has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Runway Growth Finance has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
28.3% of Sprott shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.6% of Runway Growth Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 18.3% of Sprott shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Runway Growth Finance shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Sprott beats Runway Growth Finance on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:RWAY) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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