ENVA vs. OCSL, LC, WRLD, LPRO, NNI, OMF, STC, RNST, IBTX, and WSBC
Should you be buying Enova International stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Enova International include Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), LendingClub (LC), World Acceptance (WRLD), Open Lending (LPRO), Nelnet (NNI), OneMain (OMF), Stewart Information Services (STC), Renasant (RNST), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), and WesBanco (WSBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Oaktree Specialty Lending (NASDAQ:OCSL) and Enova International (NYSE:ENVA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Oaktree Specialty Lending has a net margin of 28.81% compared to Oaktree Specialty Lending's net margin of 8.27%. Oaktree Specialty Lending's return on equity of 15.84% beat Enova International's return on equity.
Oaktree Specialty Lending currently has a consensus price target of $20.67, indicating a potential upside of 4.96%. Enova International has a consensus price target of $64.25, indicating a potential upside of 1.12%. Given Enova International's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Oaktree Specialty Lending is more favorable than Enova International.
36.8% of Oaktree Specialty Lending shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 89.4% of Enova International shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Oaktree Specialty Lending shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Enova International shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Enova International has higher revenue and earnings than Oaktree Specialty Lending. Enova International is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oaktree Specialty Lending, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Enova International had 7 more articles in the media than Oaktree Specialty Lending. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Enova International and 5 mentions for Oaktree Specialty Lending. Oaktree Specialty Lending's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Enova International's score of 0.53 indicating that Enova International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Oaktree Specialty Lending received 154 more outperform votes than Enova International when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.10% of users gave Enova International an outperform vote while only 60.45% of users gave Oaktree Specialty Lending an outperform vote.
Oaktree Specialty Lending has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Enova International has a beta of 1.55, meaning that its share price is 55% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Enova International beats Oaktree Specialty Lending on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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