RKT vs. PFSI, NCDL, GHLD, UWMC, ONIT, FOA, ADP, FI, WM, and TT
Should you be buying Rocket Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rocket Companies include PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), Guild (GHLD), UWM (UWMC), Onity Group (ONIT), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Fiserv (FI), Waste Management (WM), and Trane Technologies (TT).
Rocket Companies (NYSE:RKT) and PennyMac Financial Services (NYSE:PFSI) are both business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, PennyMac Financial Services had 16 more articles in the media than Rocket Companies. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for PennyMac Financial Services and 10 mentions for Rocket Companies. PennyMac Financial Services' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Rocket Companies' score of 0.08 indicating that PennyMac Financial Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rocket Companies has a beta of 2.43, suggesting that its stock price is 143% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennyMac Financial Services has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
4.6% of Rocket Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.9% of PennyMac Financial Services shares are owned by institutional investors. 93.1% of Rocket Companies shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of PennyMac Financial Services shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Rocket Companies currently has a consensus target price of $11.10, indicating a potential downside of 30.26%. PennyMac Financial Services has a consensus target price of $107.17, indicating a potential upside of 7.31%. Given PennyMac Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PennyMac Financial Services is more favorable than Rocket Companies.
PennyMac Financial Services has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Rocket Companies. PennyMac Financial Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rocket Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PennyMac Financial Services has a net margin of 13.13% compared to Rocket Companies' net margin of 0.43%. PennyMac Financial Services' return on equity of 12.78% beat Rocket Companies' return on equity.
Rocket Companies and PennyMac Financial Services both received 392 outperform votes by MarketBeat users. However, 66.10% of users gave Rocket Companies an outperform vote while only 63.84% of users gave PennyMac Financial Services an outperform vote.
Summary
PennyMac Financial Services beats Rocket Companies on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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