CORZ vs. WD, QFIN, RIOT, LU, UPST, PWP, CIFR, SII, IREN, and ML
Should you be buying Core Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Core Scientific include Walker & Dunlop (WD), Qifu Technology (QFIN), Riot Platforms (RIOT), Lufax (LU), Upstart (UPST), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Sprott (SII), Iris Energy (IREN), and MoneyLion (ML). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Walker & Dunlop (NYSE:WD) and Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and community ranking.
Walker & Dunlop has higher revenue and earnings than Core Scientific.
Walker & Dunlop currently has a consensus price target of $100.00, indicating a potential upside of 4.18%. Core Scientific has a consensus price target of $7.17, indicating a potential upside of 50.88%. Given Walker & Dunlop's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Core Scientific is more favorable than Walker & Dunlop.
81.0% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by institutional investors. 5.5% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 32.0% of Core Scientific shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Walker & Dunlop received 303 more outperform votes than Core Scientific when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.23% of users gave Walker & Dunlop an outperform vote while only 41.67% of users gave Core Scientific an outperform vote.
Walker & Dunlop has a net margin of 8.87% compared to Walker & Dunlop's net margin of 0.00%. Core Scientific's return on equity of 9.16% beat Walker & Dunlop's return on equity.
In the previous week, Core Scientific had 6 more articles in the media than Walker & Dunlop. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Core Scientific and 2 mentions for Walker & Dunlop. Core Scientific's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Walker & Dunlop's score of 0.79 indicating that Walker & Dunlop is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Walker & Dunlop beats Core Scientific on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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