BETR vs. TREE, JNVR, FINV, BCSF, PEBO, ECPG, FBRT, BY, EFC, and HCI
Should you be buying Better Home & Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Better Home & Finance include LendingTree (TREE), Janover (JNVR), FinVolution Group (FINV), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Peoples Bancorp (PEBO), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), Franklin BSP Realty Trust (FBRT), Byline Bancorp (BY), Ellington Financial (EFC), and HCI Group (HCI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
LendingTree (NASDAQ:TREE) and Better Home & Finance (NASDAQ:BETR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, community ranking and institutional ownership.
68.3% of LendingTree shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.9% of Better Home & Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 23.4% of LendingTree shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 30.2% of Better Home & Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
LendingTree currently has a consensus price target of $48.50, indicating a potential upside of 12.82%. Given Better Home & Finance's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe LendingTree is more favorable than Better Home & Finance.
LendingTree received 605 more outperform votes than Better Home & Finance when rated by MarketBeat users.
LendingTree has a beta of 2.1, suggesting that its share price is 110% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Better Home & Finance has a beta of 1.76, suggesting that its share price is 76% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Better Home & Finance has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Better Home & Finance's net margin of -21.07%. Better Home & Finance's return on equity of 1.34% beat LendingTree's return on equity.
In the previous week, LendingTree had 23 more articles in the media than Better Home & Finance. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for LendingTree and 1 mentions for Better Home & Finance. LendingTree's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Better Home & Finance's score of 0.32 indicating that Better Home & Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
LendingTree has higher revenue and earnings than Better Home & Finance. LendingTree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Better Home & Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
LendingTree beats Better Home & Finance on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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