SLM vs. OMF, CACC, NNI, ENVA, ECPG, PRAA, WRLD, EZPW, GDOT, and RM
Should you be buying SLM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SLM include OneMain (OMF), Credit Acceptance (CACC), Nelnet (NNI), Enova International (ENVA), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), PRA Group (PRAA), World Acceptance (WRLD), EZCORP (EZPW), Green Dot (GDOT), and Regional Management (RM).
SLM (NASDAQ:SLM) and OneMain (NYSE:OMF) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
OneMain has higher revenue and earnings than SLM. SLM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than OneMain, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
98.9% of SLM shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.8% of OneMain shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of SLM shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of OneMain shares are owned by company 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.
SLM pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. OneMain pays an annual dividend of $4.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. SLM pays out 13.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. OneMain pays out 81.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
SLM presently has a consensus price target of $21.32, suggesting a potential downside of 0.66%. OneMain has a consensus price target of $54.62, suggesting a potential upside of 11.19%. Given OneMain's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe OneMain is more favorable than SLM.
In the previous week, SLM had 1 more articles in the media than OneMain. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for SLM and 6 mentions for OneMain. SLM's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat OneMain's score of -0.01 indicating that SLM is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SLM has a net margin of 25.15% compared to OneMain's net margin of 13.29%. SLM's return on equity of 45.65% beat OneMain's return on equity.
SLM received 17 more outperform votes than OneMain when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.21% of users gave SLM an outperform vote while only 66.19% of users gave OneMain an outperform vote.
SLM has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, OneMain has a beta of 1.63, suggesting that its stock price is 63% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
SLM beats OneMain on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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