GHLD vs. NCDL, UWMC, OCN, FOA, RKT, PFSI, CNS, APAM, IBOC, and CUZ
Should you be buying Guild stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guild include Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), UWM (UWMC), Ocwen Financial (OCN), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Rocket Companies (RKT), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), International Bancshares (IBOC), and Cousins Properties (CUZ).
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) and Guild (NYSE:GHLD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking and dividends.
17.5% of Guild shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 78.0% of Guild 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.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending presently has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.46%. Guild has a consensus target price of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 7.36%. Given Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
In the previous week, Guild had 4 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Guild and 1 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Guild's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's score of 0.04 indicating that Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's net margin of 3.41%. Guild's return on equity of 12.28% beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Guild.
Guild received 12 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.03% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote.
Summary
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending and Guild tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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