GHLD vs. NCDL, UWMC, OCN, FOA, RKT, PFSI, CNS, APAM, IBOC, and CUZ
Should you be buying Guild stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guild include Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), UWM (UWMC), Ocwen Financial (OCN), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Rocket Companies (RKT), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), International Bancshares (IBOC), and Cousins Properties (CUZ).
Guild (NYSE:GHLD) and Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. 78.0% of Guild shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Guild.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to Guild's net margin of 3.41%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.28% beat Guild's return on equity.
Guild received 12 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.03% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Guild had 4 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Guild and 1 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Guild's score of 0.04 indicating that Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Guild currently has a consensus target price of $15.60, suggesting a potential upside of 7.36%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a consensus target price of $18.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.46%. Given Guild's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
Summary
Guild and Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending tied by winning 7 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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