LDI vs. WULF, HUT, CCAP, CORZ, QD, VEL, SII, RWAY, MDBH, and GHI
Should you be buying loanDepot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of loanDepot include TeraWulf (WULF), Hut 8 (HUT), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), Core Scientific (CORZ), Qudian (QD), Velocity Financial (VEL), Sprott (SII), Runway Growth Finance (RWAY), MDB Capital (MDBH), and Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) and loanDepot (NYSE:LDI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
loanDepot has a net margin of -11.31% compared to loanDepot's net margin of -106.06%. TeraWulf's return on equity of -20.63% beat loanDepot's return on equity.
62.5% of TeraWulf shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.4% of loanDepot shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.9% of TeraWulf shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 83.9% of loanDepot shares are owned 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.
TeraWulf has a beta of 2.24, suggesting that its stock price is 124% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, loanDepot has a beta of 3.13, suggesting that its stock price is 213% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, loanDepot had 1 more articles in the media than TeraWulf. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for loanDepot and 9 mentions for TeraWulf. loanDepot's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat TeraWulf's score of 0.30 indicating that TeraWulf is being referred to more favorably in the media.
loanDepot received 12 more outperform votes than TeraWulf when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.00% of users gave TeraWulf an outperform vote while only 38.16% of users gave loanDepot an outperform vote.
TeraWulf has higher earnings, but lower revenue than loanDepot.
TeraWulf presently has a consensus target price of $3.66, suggesting a potential upside of 48.11%. loanDepot has a consensus target price of $2.25, suggesting a potential downside of 4.66%. Given loanDepot's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe TeraWulf is more favorable than loanDepot.
Summary
TeraWulf and loanDepot tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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