LU vs. SOFI, COOP, CLSK, QFIN, WD, RIOT, UPST, PWP, CIFR, and SII
Should you be buying Lufax stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lufax include SoFi Technologies (SOFI), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), CleanSpark (CLSK), Qifu Technology (QFIN), Walker & Dunlop (WD), Riot Platforms (RIOT), Upstart (UPST), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Cipher Mining (CIFR), and Sprott (SII). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Lufax (NYSE:LU) and SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Lufax has a net margin of -2.17% compared to SoFi Technologies' net margin of -8.21%. SoFi Technologies' return on equity of 1.10% beat Lufax's return on equity.
Lufax presently has a consensus target price of $6.40, suggesting a potential upside of 42.86%. SoFi Technologies has a consensus target price of $9.08, suggesting a potential upside of 31.64%. Given Lufax's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Lufax is more favorable than SoFi Technologies.
69.1% of Lufax shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.4% of SoFi Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of SoFi Technologies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Lufax has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SoFi Technologies has a beta of 1.75, indicating that its stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SoFi Technologies had 26 more articles in the media than Lufax. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for SoFi Technologies and 3 mentions for Lufax. SoFi Technologies' average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Lufax's score of 0.54 indicating that SoFi Technologies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SoFi Technologies received 24 more outperform votes than Lufax when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 43.40% of users gave Lufax an outperform vote while only 36.43% of users gave SoFi Technologies an outperform vote.
Lufax has higher revenue and earnings than SoFi Technologies. Lufax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SoFi Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SoFi Technologies beats Lufax on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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