SWKH vs. TSI, PCB, MHLD, BLFY, TDF, KFS, PINE, SBNY, SFST, and CVLY
Should you be buying SWK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SWK include TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI), PCB Bancorp (PCB), Maiden (MHLD), Blue Foundry Bancorp (BLFY), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), Kingsway Financial Services (KFS), Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE), Signature Bank (SBNY), Southern First Bancshares (SFST), and Codorus Valley Bancorp (CVLY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
TCW Strategic Income Fund (NYSE:TSI) and SWK (NASDAQ:SWKH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
TCW Strategic Income Fund received 104 more outperform votes than SWK when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.35% of users gave TCW Strategic Income Fund an outperform vote while only 50.00% of users gave SWK an outperform vote.
35.2% of TCW Strategic Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.3% of SWK shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of TCW Strategic Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of SWK shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SWK has a net margin of 30.19% compared to SWK's net margin of 0.00%. TCW Strategic Income Fund's return on equity of 5.11% beat SWK's return on equity.
In the previous week, SWK had 5 more articles in the media than TCW Strategic Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for SWK and 1 mentions for TCW Strategic Income Fund. SWK's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat TCW Strategic Income Fund's score of 0.05 indicating that TCW Strategic Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TCW Strategic Income Fund has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SWK has a beta of 0.33, suggesting that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SWK has higher revenue and earnings than TCW Strategic Income Fund.
Summary
SWK beats TCW Strategic Income Fund on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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