VIRT vs. FRHC, PIPR, NAVI, WT, TIGR, MKTX, SF, SEIC, JEF, and AB
Should you be buying Virtu Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virtu Financial include Freedom (FRHC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Navient (NAVI), WisdomTree (WT), UP Fintech (TIGR), MarketAxess (MKTX), Stifel Financial (SF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), and AllianceBernstein (AB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Freedom (NASDAQ:FRHC) and Virtu Financial (NASDAQ:VIRT) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
1.3% of Freedom shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.8% of Virtu Financial shares are owned by institutional investors. 71.6% of Freedom shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 44.8% of Virtu Financial shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Freedom has a net margin of 23.96% compared to Freedom's net margin of 6.04%. Virtu Financial's return on equity of 37.71% beat Freedom's return on equity.
Virtu Financial has a consensus price target of $22.24, indicating a potential downside of 5.19%. Given Freedom's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Virtu Financial is more favorable than Freedom.
Freedom has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Virtu Financial.
Virtu Financial received 362 more outperform votes than Freedom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.73% of users gave Virtu Financial an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Freedom an outperform vote.
Freedom has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virtu Financial has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Virtu Financial had 15 more articles in the media than Freedom. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Virtu Financial and 2 mentions for Freedom. Freedom's average media sentiment score of 0.86 beat Virtu Financial's score of 0.24 indicating that Virtu Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Virtu Financial beats Freedom on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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