Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL) Competitors

Guild (NYSE:GHLD) and Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.

Is GHLD or NCDL a better dividend stock?

Guild pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Guild pays out 144.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays out 96.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, GHLD or NCDL?

Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Guild. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guild, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Guild	$1.04B	0.95	-$39.01M	$0.69	23.04
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	$98.95M	8.22	$75.94M	$1.87	8.65

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of GHLD or NCDL?

17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. 78.3% of Guild shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer GHLD or NCDL?

In the previous week, Guild had 2 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Guild and 2 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Guild's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's score of 1.00 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Guild	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer GHLD or NCDL?

Guild received 18 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 39.29% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 26.67% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Guild	Outperform Votes 22 39.29%	Underperform Votes 34 60.71%
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	Outperform Votes 4 26.67%	Underperform Votes 11 73.33%

Do analysts rate GHLD or NCDL?

Guild presently has a consensus target price of $16.30, suggesting a potential upside of 2.52%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a consensus target price of $15.75, suggesting a potential downside of 2.66%. Given Guild's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Guild	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.67
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is GHLD or NCDL more profitable?

Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 53.56% compared to Guild's net margin of -12.78%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.72% beat Guild's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Guild	-12.78%	6.21%	1.76%
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	53.56%	12.72%	6.05%

Which has more volatility & risk, GHLD or NCDL?

Guild has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Guild beats Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.