RWAY vs. PWP, CIFR, SII, IREN, ML, CORZ, BITF, PGY, HUT, and HKD
Should you be buying Runway Growth Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Runway Growth Finance include Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Sprott (SII), Iris Energy (IREN), MoneyLion (ML), Core Scientific (CORZ), Bitfarms (BITF), Pagaya Technologies (PGY), Hut 8 (HUT), and AMTD Digital (HKD). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Perella Weinberg Partners (NASDAQ:PWP) and Runway Growth Finance (NASDAQ:RWAY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Runway Growth Finance has a net margin of 26.93% compared to Runway Growth Finance's net margin of -7.74%. Runway Growth Finance's return on equity of 17.87% beat Perella Weinberg Partners' return on equity.
Perella Weinberg Partners received 1 more outperform votes than Runway Growth Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.91% of users gave Perella Weinberg Partners an outperform vote while only 43.24% of users gave Runway Growth Finance an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Perella Weinberg Partners and Perella Weinberg Partners both had 4 articles in the media. Perella Weinberg Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Runway Growth Finance's score of 0.56 indicating that Runway Growth Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
41.1% of Perella Weinberg Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.6% of Runway Growth Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.5% of Perella Weinberg Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Runway Growth Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Perella Weinberg Partners pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Runway Growth Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Perella Weinberg Partners pays out -15.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Runway Growth Finance pays out 145.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Runway Growth Finance has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Runway Growth Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Runway Growth Finance has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Perella Weinberg Partners. Perella Weinberg Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Runway Growth Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Perella Weinberg Partners presently has a consensus target price of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 6.66%. Runway Growth Finance has a consensus target price of $12.65, suggesting a potential upside of 8.21%. Given Perella Weinberg Partners' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Runway Growth Finance is more favorable than Perella Weinberg Partners.
Perella Weinberg Partners has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Runway Growth Finance has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Perella Weinberg Partners and Runway Growth Finance tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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