NCDL vs. GHLD, UWMC, GABC, CSR, OBK, BHLB, SASR, PRAA, PLYM, and QCRH
Should you be buying Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending include Guild (GHLD), UWM (UWMC), German American Bancorp (GABC), Centerspace (CSR), Origin Bancorp (OBK), Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB), Sandy Spring Bancorp (SASR), PRA Group (PRAA), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), and QCR (QCRH). 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 business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations 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 currently has a consensus target price of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.96%. Guild has a consensus target price of $15.25, indicating a potential upside of 12.30%. Given Guild's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 46.95% compared to Guild's net margin of -5.95%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 11.91% beat Guild's return on equity.
17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. 78.5% of Guild shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Guild had 17 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Guild and 4 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Guild's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's score of -0.29 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Guild.
Summary
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending beats Guild on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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