TREE vs. BETR, FINV, CPF, MSBI, MYD, SRG, VEL, DSU, FPI, and PKST
Should you be buying LendingTree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of LendingTree include Better Home & Finance (BETR), FinVolution Group (FINV), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Midland States Bancorp (MSBI), BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD), Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), Velocity Financial (VEL), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (DSU), Farmland Partners (FPI), and Peakstone Realty Trust (PKST). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Better Home & Finance (NASDAQ:BETR) and LendingTree (NASDAQ:TREE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, risk and earnings.
0.6% of Better Home & Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.2% of LendingTree shares are owned by institutional investors. 57.4% of Better Home & Finance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.0% of LendingTree shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Better Home & Finance has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Better Home & Finance's net margin of -18.20%. Better Home & Finance's return on equity of -4.22% beat LendingTree's return on equity.
LendingTree has a consensus price target of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.22%. Given Better Home & Finance's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe LendingTree is more favorable than Better Home & Finance.
LendingTree received 600 more outperform votes than Better Home & Finance when rated by MarketBeat users.
Better Home & Finance has a beta of 1.71, suggesting that its stock price is 71% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LendingTree has a beta of 2.19, suggesting that its stock price is 119% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Better Home & Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LendingTree. LendingTree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Better Home & Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, LendingTree had 21 more articles in the media than Better Home & Finance. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for LendingTree and 5 mentions for Better Home & Finance. LendingTree's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Better Home & Finance's score of 0.13 indicating that Better Home & Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
LendingTree beats Better Home & Finance on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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