VEL vs. QD, RWAY, CORZ, CCAP, MDBH, GHI, LDI, HIVE, WULF, and LX
Should you be buying Velocity Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Velocity Financial include Qudian (QD), Runway Growth Finance (RWAY), Core Scientific (CORZ), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), MDB Capital (MDBH), Greystone Housing Impact Investors (GHI), loanDepot (LDI), HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE), TeraWulf (WULF), and LexinFintech (LX). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Velocity Financial (NYSE:VEL) and Qudian (NYSE:QD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, community ranking, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
Velocity Financial has a beta of 1.04, indicating that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Qudian has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Velocity Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Qudian. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Velocity Financial and 1 mentions for Qudian. Qudian's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Velocity Financial's score of 0.44 indicating that Qudian is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Velocity Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Qudian. Velocity Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qudian, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Velocity Financial has a net margin of 48.51% compared to Qudian's net margin of 47.30%. Velocity Financial's return on equity of 12.91% beat Qudian's return on equity.
Velocity Financial presently has a consensus price target of $15.88, suggesting a potential downside of 6.67%. Given Velocity Financial's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Velocity Financial is more favorable than Qudian.
97.5% of Velocity Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.1% of Qudian shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Velocity Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 25.7% of Qudian shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Qudian received 381 more outperform votes than Velocity Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.86% of users gave Velocity Financial an outperform vote while only 67.81% of users gave Qudian an outperform vote.
Summary
Velocity Financial beats Qudian on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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