NCDL vs. GHLD, UWMC, NOAH, GABC, SVC, PLYM, ARR, QCRH, BBDC, and MFIC
Should you be buying Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending include Guild (GHLD), UWM (UWMC), Noah (NOAH), German American Bancorp (GABC), Service Properties Trust (SVC), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), ARMOUR Residential REIT (ARR), QCR (QCRH), Barings BDC (BBDC), and MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Guild (NYSE:GHLD) 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 institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Guild.
17.5% of Guild shares are owned by institutional investors. 78.0% of Guild shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Guild had 18 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Guild and 3 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Guild's score of 0.00 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Guild presently has a consensus price target of $15.60, indicating a potential upside of 10.95%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a consensus price target of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 7.31%. Given Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
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.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's net margin of 3.41%. Guild's return on equity of 12.28% beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity.
Summary
Guild beats Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding NCDL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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