CACC vs. SLM, NNI, OMF, ENVA, WTFC, FR, RHP, STAG, HLNE, and BNRE
Should you be buying Credit Acceptance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Credit Acceptance include SLM (SLM), Nelnet (NNI), OneMain (OMF), Enova International (ENVA), Wintrust Financial (WTFC), First Industrial Realty Trust (FR), Ryman Hospitality Properties (RHP), STAG Industrial (STAG), Hamilton Lane (HLNE), and Brookfield Reinsurance (BNRE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
SLM (NASDAQ:SLM) and Credit Acceptance (NASDAQ:CACC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership and profitability.
98.9% of SLM shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.7% of Credit Acceptance shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of SLM shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of Credit Acceptance shares are held 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 presently has a consensus target price of $21.32, indicating a potential upside of 0.75%. Credit Acceptance has a consensus target price of $402.33, indicating a potential downside of 19.05%. Given Credit Acceptance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SLM is more favorable than Credit Acceptance.
In the previous week, SLM had 9 more articles in the media than Credit Acceptance. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for SLM and 6 mentions for Credit Acceptance. SLM's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Credit Acceptance's score of 0.57 indicating that Credit Acceptance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SLM has a net margin of 25.15% compared to SLM's net margin of 12.83%. Credit Acceptance's return on equity of 45.65% beat SLM's return on equity.
SLM has higher revenue and earnings than Credit Acceptance. SLM is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Credit Acceptance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SLM has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Credit Acceptance has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its share price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SLM received 148 more outperform votes than Credit Acceptance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.21% of users gave SLM an outperform vote while only 51.31% of users gave Credit Acceptance an outperform vote.
Summary
SLM beats Credit Acceptance on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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