PPDF vs. FINV, TREE, ARI, EXPI, XHR, LKFN, BANR, NTB, CNNE, and OCSL
Should you be buying PPDAI Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PPDAI Group include FinVolution Group (FINV), LendingTree (TREE), Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (ARI), eXp World (EXPI), Xenia Hotels & Resorts (XHR), Lakeland Financial (LKFN), Banner (BANR), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), Cannae (CNNE), and Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
PPDAI Group (NYSE:PPDF) and FinVolution Group (NYSE:FINV) 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, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
14.5% of PPDAI Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.2% of FinVolution Group shares are held by institutional investors. 44.0% of FinVolution Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PPDAI Group has a net margin of 47.72% compared to FinVolution Group's net margin of 18.70%. PPDAI Group's return on equity of 40.74% beat FinVolution Group's return on equity.
PPDAI Group pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. FinVolution Group pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. PPDAI Group pays out 13.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. FinVolution Group pays out 18.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
PPDAI Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than FinVolution Group. PPDAI Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than FinVolution Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PPDAI Group has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FinVolution Group has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
FinVolution Group has a consensus price target of $5.69, indicating a potential upside of 20.55%. Given FinVolution Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe FinVolution Group is more favorable than PPDAI Group.
In the previous week, FinVolution Group had 3 more articles in the media than PPDAI Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for FinVolution Group and 0 mentions for PPDAI Group. FinVolution Group's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat PPDAI Group's score of 0.00 indicating that FinVolution Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PPDAI Group received 173 more outperform votes than FinVolution Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.93% of users gave PPDAI Group an outperform vote while only 57.89% of users gave FinVolution Group an outperform vote.
Summary
PPDAI Group beats FinVolution Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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