WRLD vs. RM, LPRO, LC, ATLC, OCSL, ENVA, BDN, BFC, SBSI, and AMBC Should you be buying World Acceptance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of World Acceptance include Regional Management (RM), Open Lending (LPRO), LendingClub (LC), Atlanticus (ATLC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Enova International (ENVA), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Bank First (BFC), Southside Bancshares (SBSI), and Ambac Financial Group (AMBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Regional Management (NYSE:RM ) and World Acceptance (NASDAQ:WRLD ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Regional Management has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, World Acceptance has a beta of 1.42, meaning that its share price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Regional Management presently has a consensus target price of $29.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.52%. World Acceptance has a consensus target price of $56.00, indicating a potential downside of 57.22%. Given World Acceptance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Regional Management is more favorable than World Acceptance.
World Acceptance has a net margin of 13.49% compared to World Acceptance's net margin of 4.01%. Regional Management's return on equity of 18.88% beat World Acceptance's return on equity.
Regional Management received 18 more outperform votes than World Acceptance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.40% of users gave Regional Management an outperform vote while only 55.03% of users gave World Acceptance an outperform vote.
98.9% of Regional Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 83.6% of World Acceptance shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Regional Management shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.9% of World Acceptance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Regional Management and Regional Management both had 1 articles in the media. Regional Management's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat World Acceptance's score of 0.72 indicating that World Acceptance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
World Acceptance has higher revenue and earnings than Regional Management. World Acceptance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regional Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary World Acceptance beats Regional Management on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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