WT vs. PJC, TIGR, AC, GAMI, OPY, GHL, NAVI, PIPR, CS, and VIRT
Should you be buying WisdomTree stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of WisdomTree include Piper Jaffray Companies (PJC), UP Fintech (TIGR), Associated Capital Group (AC), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), Oppenheimer (OPY), Greenhill & Co., Inc. (GHL), Navient (NAVI), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Credit Suisse Group (CS), and Virtu Financial (VIRT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Piper Jaffray Companies (NYSE:PJC) and WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Piper Jaffray Companies received 343 more outperform votes than WisdomTree when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.96% of users gave Piper Jaffray Companies an outperform vote while only 42.86% of users gave WisdomTree an outperform vote.
WisdomTree has a consensus price target of $8.75, indicating a potential upside of 24.47%. Given Piper Jaffray Companies' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than Piper Jaffray Companies.
78.8% of Piper Jaffray Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.8% of WisdomTree shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.1% of Piper Jaffray Companies shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of WisdomTree shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, WisdomTree had 1 more articles in the media than Piper Jaffray Companies. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for WisdomTree and 2 mentions for Piper Jaffray Companies. Piper Jaffray Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat WisdomTree's score of -0.54 indicating that WisdomTree is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Piper Jaffray Companies has higher revenue and earnings than WisdomTree. WisdomTree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Piper Jaffray Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Piper Jaffray Companies pays an annual dividend of $1.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. WisdomTree pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Piper Jaffray Companies pays out 24.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. WisdomTree pays out 16.7% 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.
Piper Jaffray Companies has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, WisdomTree has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its stock price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
WisdomTree has a net margin of 39.37% compared to WisdomTree's net margin of 10.99%. WisdomTree's return on equity of 12.26% beat Piper Jaffray Companies' return on equity.
Summary
WisdomTree beats Piper Jaffray Companies on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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