UWMC vs. GHLD, NCDL, OCN, NBBK, HBT, VINP, MCBS, CION, FCBC, and LPRO
Should you be buying UWM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UWM include Guild (GHLD), Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), Ocwen Financial (OCN), NB Bancorp (NBBK), HBT Financial (HBT), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), MetroCity Bankshares (MCBS), CION Investment (CION), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), and Open Lending (LPRO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Guild (NYSE:GHLD) and UWM (NYSE:UWMC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Guild presently has a consensus target price of $15.25, suggesting a potential upside of 12.80%. UWM has a consensus target price of $5.59, suggesting a potential downside of 12.85%. Given UWM's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Guild is more favorable than UWM.
In the previous week, Guild had 11 more articles in the media than UWM. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Guild and 2 mentions for UWM. UWM's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat Guild's score of 0.00 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the media.
UWM has higher revenue and earnings than Guild. UWM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guild, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
UWM has a net margin of 0.79% compared to UWM's net margin of -5.95%. UWM's return on equity of 3.57% beat Guild's return on equity.
Guild has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UWM has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its stock price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of UWM shares are held by institutional investors. 78.5% of Guild shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 94.2% of UWM shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
UWM received 11 more outperform votes than Guild when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 39.47% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 32.91% of users gave UWM an outperform vote.
Summary
Guild beats UWM on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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