Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL) Competitors

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

Do institutionals & insiders believe in NCDL or GHLD?

17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 78.5% of Guild shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to NCDL or GHLD?

In the previous week, Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending had 2 more articles in the media than Guild. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending and 4 mentions for Guild. Guild's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's score of 0.76 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	3 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Guild	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in NCDL or GHLD?

Guild received 16 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 37.74% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	Outperform Votes 4 28.57%	Underperform Votes 10 71.43%
Guild	Outperform Votes 20 37.74%	Underperform Votes 33 62.26%

Which has more risk & volatility, NCDL or GHLD?

Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guild has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is NCDL or GHLD a better dividend stock?

Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Guild pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays out 83.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Guild pays out 64.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Do analysts rate NCDL or GHLD?

Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending presently has a consensus price target of $16.08, indicating a potential upside of 2.41%. Guild has a consensus price target of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 26.34%. Given Guild's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
Guild	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.60

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, NCDL or GHLD?

Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	$111.42M	7.22	$75.94M	$2.15	7.30
Guild	$1.06B	0.76	-$39.01M	$1.54	8.48

Is NCDL or GHLD 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
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending	53.56%	12.72%	6.05%
Guild	-12.78%	6.21%	1.76%

Summary

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