WT vs. NAVI, AC, TIGR, GAMI, OPY, VIRT, PIPR, FRHC, VRE, and SKWD
Should you be buying WisdomTree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WisdomTree include Navient (NAVI), Associated Capital Group (AC), UP Fintech (TIGR), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), Oppenheimer (OPY), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Freedom (FRHC), Veris Residential (VRE), and Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) and WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Navient has a beta of 1.38, indicating that its share price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WisdomTree has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.1% of Navient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.6% of WisdomTree shares are held by institutional investors. 26.9% of Navient shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of WisdomTree shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
WisdomTree has a net margin of 29.38% compared to WisdomTree's net margin of 4.72%. Navient's return on equity of 15.15% beat WisdomTree's return on equity.
Navient received 415 more outperform votes than WisdomTree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave WisdomTree an outperform vote while only 48.96% of users gave Navient an outperform vote.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than WisdomTree. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WisdomTree, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Navient and Navient both had 4 articles in the media. Navient's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat WisdomTree's score of 0.48 indicating that WisdomTree is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. WisdomTree pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Navient pays out 36.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. WisdomTree pays out 18.5% 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.
Navient presently has a consensus price target of $16.90, suggesting a potential downside of 2.87%. WisdomTree has a consensus price target of $9.85, suggesting a potential upside of 7.18%. Given Navient's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than Navient.
Summary
WisdomTree beats Navient on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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