NAVI vs. PIPR, EPRT, LB, VCTR, PECO, IRT, CTRE, AHR, PJT, and AB
Should you be buying Navient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navient include Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Essential Properties Realty Trust (EPRT), LandBridge (LB), Victory Capital (VCTR), Phillips Edison & Company, Inc. (PECO), Independence Realty Trust (IRT), CareTrust REIT (CTRE), American Healthcare REIT (AHR), PJT Partners (PJT), and AllianceBernstein (AB). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Navient vs.
Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) and Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE:PIPR) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, profitability, community ranking, risk and valuation.
97.1% of Navient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.8% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are held by institutional investors. 28.0% of Navient shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of Piper Sandler Companies shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Piper Sandler Companies has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Navient. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Piper Sandler Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Navient has a beta of 1.43, indicating that its share price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Piper Sandler Companies has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Piper Sandler Companies has a net margin of 11.87% compared to Navient's net margin of 2.96%. Piper Sandler Companies' return on equity of 17.00% beat Navient's return on equity.
Navient currently has a consensus target price of $13.90, suggesting a potential downside of 1.32%. Piper Sandler Companies has a consensus target price of $330.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.41%. Given Piper Sandler Companies' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Piper Sandler Companies is more favorable than Navient.
Navient received 296 more outperform votes than Piper Sandler Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.42% of users gave Piper Sandler Companies an outperform vote while only 48.20% of users gave Navient an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Piper Sandler Companies had 7 more articles in the media than Navient. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Piper Sandler Companies and 1 mentions for Navient. Piper Sandler Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Navient's score of 0.00 indicating that Piper Sandler Companies is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. Piper Sandler Companies pays an annual dividend of $2.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Navient pays out 55.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Piper Sandler Companies pays out 25.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Summary
Piper Sandler Companies beats Navient on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NAVI) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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