WD vs. MTG, RDN, TFSL, SMPL, WSFS, WAFD, PFS, AGM, BANC, and NWBI
Should you be buying Walker & Dunlop stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Walker & Dunlop include MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), TFS Financial (TFSL), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), WSFS Financial (WSFS), WaFd (WAFD), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM), Banc of California (BANC), and Northwest Bancshares (NWBI). These companies are all part of the "thrifts & mortgage finance" industry.
Walker & Dunlop vs. Its Competitors
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE:WD) and MGIC Investment (NYSE:MTG) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.
MGIC Investment received 163 more outperform votes than Walker & Dunlop when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.21% of users gave MGIC Investment an outperform vote while only 59.55% of users gave Walker & Dunlop an outperform vote.
81.0% of Walker & Dunlop shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.6% of MGIC Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.7% of Walker & Dunlop shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of MGIC Investment shares are owned 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.
Walker & Dunlop presently has a consensus target price of $102.50, indicating a potential upside of 44.69%. MGIC Investment has a consensus target price of $26.63, indicating a potential upside of 0.41%. Given Walker & Dunlop's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Walker & Dunlop is more favorable than MGIC Investment.
MGIC Investment has a net margin of 63.18% compared to Walker & Dunlop's net margin of 9.55%. MGIC Investment's return on equity of 14.86% beat Walker & Dunlop's return on equity.
MGIC Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Walker & Dunlop. MGIC Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Walker & Dunlop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Walker & Dunlop pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. MGIC Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Walker & Dunlop pays out 91.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. MGIC Investment pays out 17.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Walker & Dunlop has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and MGIC Investment has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Walker & Dunlop is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, MGIC Investment had 5 more articles in the media than Walker & Dunlop. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for MGIC Investment and 1 mentions for Walker & Dunlop. MGIC Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Walker & Dunlop's score of 0.76 indicating that MGIC Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Walker & Dunlop has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MGIC Investment has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
MGIC Investment beats Walker & Dunlop on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.
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