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$124.86 +2.76 (+2.26%)
Closing price 04/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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WRLD vs. EZPW, ECPG, PRAA, GDOT, RM, AXP, COF, DFS, CACC, and SLM

Should you be buying World Acceptance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of World Acceptance include EZCORP (EZPW), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), PRA Group (PRAA), Green Dot (GDOT), Regional Management (RM), American Express (AXP), Capital One Financial (COF), Discover Financial Services (DFS), Credit Acceptance (CACC), and SLM (SLM). These companies are all part of the "consumer finance" industry.

World Acceptance vs.

World Acceptance (NASDAQ:WRLD) and EZCORP (NASDAQ:EZPW) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings and media sentiment.

World Acceptance presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential downside of 91.99%. EZCORP has a consensus target price of $16.88, suggesting a potential upside of 5.93%. Given EZCORP's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe EZCORP is more favorable than World Acceptance.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
World Acceptance
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
EZCORP
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

World Acceptance has a beta of 1.35, meaning that its share price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, EZCORP has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, EZCORP had 3 more articles in the media than World Acceptance. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for EZCORP and 4 mentions for World Acceptance. EZCORP's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat World Acceptance's score of 1.52 indicating that EZCORP is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
World Acceptance
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
EZCORP
7 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

EZCORP has higher revenue and earnings than World Acceptance. World Acceptance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than EZCORP, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
World Acceptance$515.56M1.39$77.35M$14.328.72
EZCORP$1.18B0.74$83.10M$1.1513.85

83.6% of World Acceptance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 99.8% of EZCORP shares are owned by institutional investors. 43.2% of World Acceptance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of EZCORP shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

World Acceptance has a net margin of 14.41% compared to EZCORP's net margin of 7.25%. World Acceptance's return on equity of 19.03% beat EZCORP's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
World Acceptance14.41% 19.03% 7.55%
EZCORP 7.25%11.04%5.93%

EZCORP received 42 more outperform votes than World Acceptance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.16% of users gave EZCORP an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave World Acceptance an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
World AcceptanceOutperform Votes
286
55.53%
Underperform Votes
229
44.47%
EZCORPOutperform Votes
328
56.16%
Underperform Votes
256
43.84%

Summary

EZCORP beats World Acceptance on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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WRLD vs. The Competition

MetricWorld AcceptancePersonal credit institutions IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$717.57M$5.21B$10.84B$7.35B
Dividend YieldN/A4.65%5.97%4.30%
P/E Ratio8.7214.8521.5317.81
Price / Sales1.393.5525.4397.70
Price / Cash8.4511.1317.6134.64
Price / Book1.686.002.563.98
Net Income$77.35M$391.67M$1.03B$247.81M
1 Month Performance0.02%-10.38%-4.09%-7.94%
1 Year Performance-6.38%13.92%531.55%1.52%

World Acceptance Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WRLD
World Acceptance
2.3115 of 5 stars
$124.86
+2.3%
$10.00
-92.0%
-5.6%$717.57M$515.56M8.723,120Positive News
Gap Up
EZPW
EZCORP
2.4721 of 5 stars
$15.59
-0.4%
$16.88
+8.2%
+45.4%$856.50M$1.18B13.567,000
ECPG
Encore Capital Group
4.0337 of 5 stars
$29.62
+1.0%
$62.67
+111.6%
-27.0%$701.73M$1.32B-3.776,900Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
PRAA
PRA Group
4.072 of 5 stars
$17.03
+1.9%
$32.00
+87.9%
-27.5%$672.86M$1.12B9.513,280Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
GDOT
Green Dot
4.0641 of 5 stars
$7.62
+4.0%
$10.75
+41.1%
-12.1%$413.23M$1.72B-7.261,200Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
RM
Regional Management
4.1686 of 5 stars
$30.86
+3.8%
$35.50
+15.0%
+25.5%$303.42M$513.97M7.421,990Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
AXP
American Express
4.8735 of 5 stars
$255.57
+1.8%
$296.81
+16.1%
+15.6%$179.55B$65.95B18.2477,300Earnings Report
News Coverage
COF
Capital One Financial
4.9327 of 5 stars
$162.37
+0.9%
$206.73
+27.3%
+14.9%$61.94B$39.11B14.0155,900Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
DFS
Discover Financial Services
4.8756 of 5 stars
$159.16
+1.3%
$188.40
+18.4%
+28.7%$40.05B$17.91B9.9720,200Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Downgrade
News Coverage
CACC
Credit Acceptance
2.0036 of 5 stars
$497.31
+0.8%
$440.00
-11.5%
-12.0%$5.98B$2.13B25.042,250News Coverage
Positive News
SLM
SLM
4.9588 of 5 stars
$26.10
+2.5%
$31.18
+19.5%
+28.9%$5.49B$1.85B9.851,700Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↓
News Coverage

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This page (NASDAQ:WRLD) was last updated on 4/19/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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