SWKH vs. XYF, BKN, SSBK, OPAD, NECB, USCB, BLFY, TSI, FVCB, and NWFL
Should you be buying SWK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SWK include X Financial (XYF), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), Southern States Bancshares (SSBK), Offerpad Solutions (OPAD), Northeast Community Bancorp (NECB), USCB Financial (USCB), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI), FVCBankcorp (FVCB), and Norwood Financial (NWFL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
X Financial (NYSE:XYF) and SWK (NASDAQ:SWKH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
X Financial has higher revenue and earnings than SWK. X Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SWK, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SWK has a net margin of 42.07% compared to SWK's net margin of 24.64%. SWK's return on equity of 22.94% beat X Financial's return on equity.
X Financial has a beta of 0.23, indicating that its share price is 77% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SWK has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its share price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SWK has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 26.29%. Given X Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SWK is more favorable than X Financial.
In the previous week, X Financial had 7 more articles in the media than SWK. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for X Financial and 4 mentions for SWK. X Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat SWK's score of 0.47 indicating that SWK is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
X Financial received 120 more outperform votes than SWK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.11% of users gave X Financial an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave SWK an outperform vote.
1.2% of X Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of SWK shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.6% of X Financial shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of SWK 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.
Summary
X Financial beats SWK on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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