Landmark Bancorp (LARK) Competitors

Landmark Bancorp (NASDAQ:LARK) and loanDepot (NYSE:LDI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of LARK or LDI?

25.7% of Landmark Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.4% of loanDepot shares are owned by institutional investors. 17.2% of Landmark Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 83.0% of loanDepot shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts prefer LARK or LDI?

loanDepot has a consensus price target of $2.60, indicating a potential upside of 44.85%. Given loanDepot's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe loanDepot is more favorable than Landmark Bancorp.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Landmark Bancorp	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
loanDepot	1 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.67

Which has higher valuation and earnings, LARK or LDI?

Landmark Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than loanDepot. loanDepot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Landmark Bancorp, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Landmark Bancorp	$77.91M	1.82	$12.24M	$2.15	11.39
loanDepot	$974.02M	0.60	-$110.14M	-$0.52	-3.45

Which has more volatility & risk, LARK or LDI?

Landmark Bancorp has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, loanDepot has a beta of 3.41, suggesting that its stock price is 241% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in LARK or LDI?

Landmark Bancorp received 143 more outperform votes than loanDepot when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.72% of users gave Landmark Bancorp an outperform vote while only 35.80% of users gave loanDepot an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Landmark Bancorp	Outperform Votes 172 57.72%	Underperform Votes 126 42.28%
loanDepot	Outperform Votes 29 35.80%	Underperform Votes 52 64.20%

Is LARK or LDI more profitable?

Landmark Bancorp has a net margin of 14.36% compared to loanDepot's net margin of -8.95%. Landmark Bancorp's return on equity of 9.48% beat loanDepot's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Landmark Bancorp	14.36%	9.48%	0.79%
loanDepot	-8.95%	-14.66%	-1.49%

Does the media refer more to LARK or LDI?

In the previous week, Landmark Bancorp and Landmark Bancorp both had 3 articles in the media. Landmark Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat loanDepot's score of 0.41 indicating that Landmark Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Landmark Bancorp	1 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
loanDepot	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Landmark Bancorp beats loanDepot on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.