OCN vs. FOA, UWMC, OVLY, NPV, BWFG, PKBK, CHMG, MHLD, CIO, and NKSH
Should you be buying Ocwen Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ocwen Financial include Finance Of America Companies (FOA), UWM (UWMC), Oak Valley Bancorp (OVLY), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), Bankwell Financial Group (BWFG), Parke Bancorp (PKBK), Chemung Financial (CHMG), Maiden (MHLD), City Office REIT (CIO), and National Bankshares (NKSH). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Ocwen Financial (NYSE:OCN) and Finance of America Companies (NYSE:FOA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.
In the previous week, Ocwen Financial had 6 more articles in the media than Finance of America Companies. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Ocwen Financial and 2 mentions for Finance of America Companies. Ocwen Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Finance of America Companies' score of -0.59 indicating that Ocwen Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ocwen Financial currently has a consensus target price of $40.00, suggesting a potential upside of 48.09%. Finance of America Companies has a consensus target price of $1.80, suggesting a potential upside of 144.86%. Given Finance of America Companies' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Finance of America Companies is more favorable than Ocwen Financial.
Finance of America Companies has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Ocwen Financial's net margin of -5.97%. Ocwen Financial's return on equity of 10.21% beat Finance of America Companies' return on equity.
Ocwen Financial has a beta of 1.87, suggesting that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Finance of America Companies has a beta of 0.89, suggesting that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ocwen Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Finance of America Companies. Ocwen Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Finance of America Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ocwen Financial received 321 more outperform votes than Finance of America Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.51% of users gave Ocwen Financial an outperform vote while only 47.22% of users gave Finance of America Companies an outperform vote.
70.2% of Ocwen Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.2% of Finance of America Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Ocwen Financial shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 15.6% of Finance of America Companies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Ocwen Financial beats Finance of America Companies on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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