GHLD vs. NCDL, UWMC, BFS, LC, OCFC, OBK, ARR, OBNK, BSIG, and PRAA
Should you be buying Guild stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guild include Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), UWM (UWMC), Saul Centers (BFS), LendingClub (LC), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Origin Bancorp (OBK), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), Origin Bancorp (OBNK), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), and PRA Group (PRAA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) and Guild (NYSE:GHLD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Guild received 11 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 40.00% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote while only 39.47% of users gave Guild an outperform vote.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Guild.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending currently has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.51%. Guild has a consensus target price of $15.25, suggesting a potential upside of 12.55%. Given Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. 78.5% of Guild shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 46.95% compared to Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's net margin of -5.95%. Guild's return on equity of 11.91% beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity.
In the previous week, Guild had 10 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Guild and 2 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Guild's score of 0.00 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending beats Guild on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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