UWMC vs. NCDL, GHLD, OCN, FOA, RKT, PFSI, GBDC, FIBK, TCBI, and CS
Should you be buying UWM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of UWM include Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), Guild (GHLD), Ocwen Financial (OCN), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Rocket Companies (RKT), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), First Interstate BancSystem (FIBK), Texas Capital Bancshares (TCBI), and Credit Suisse Group (CS).
UWM (NYSE:UWMC) and Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and profitability.
53.6% of UWM shares are owned by institutional investors. 94.1% of UWM shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, UWM had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for UWM and 1 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat UWM's score of 0.34 indicating that Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
UWM pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. UWM pays out 1,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings than UWM.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to UWM's net margin of 0.79%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.28% beat UWM's return on equity.
UWM presently has a consensus target price of $5.69, suggesting a potential downside of 22.83%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.46%. Given Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is more favorable than UWM.
UWM received 22 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 40.00% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote while only 31.71% of users gave UWM an outperform vote.
Summary
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending beats UWM on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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