FRHC vs. WDR, JEF, SEIC, SF, MKTX, PIPR, VIRT, CS, NAVI, and WT
Should you be buying Freedom stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freedom include Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Stifel Financial (SF), MarketAxess (MKTX), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Credit Suisse Group (CS), Navient (NAVI), and WisdomTree (WT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Freedom (NASDAQ:FRHC) and Waddell & Reed Financial (NYSE:WDR) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Waddell & Reed Financial received 385 more outperform votes than Freedom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 47.93% of users gave Waddell & Reed Financial an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Freedom an outperform vote.
Freedom has a net margin of 23.96% compared to Waddell & Reed Financial's net margin of 9.17%. Freedom's return on equity of 37.71% beat Waddell & Reed Financial's return on equity.
1.3% of Freedom shares are held by institutional investors. 71.6% of Freedom shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Waddell & Reed Financial shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Freedom had 1 more articles in the media than Waddell & Reed Financial. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Freedom and 0 mentions for Waddell & Reed Financial. Freedom's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat Waddell & Reed Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Freedom is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Freedom has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Waddell & Reed Financial.
Freedom has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waddell & Reed Financial has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Freedom beats Waddell & Reed Financial on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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