GHLD vs. BFH, ENVA, PRK, IBTX, PPBI, FBK, IREN, INTR, LU, and FINV
Should you be buying Guild stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guild include Bread Financial (BFH), Enova International (ENVA), Park National (PRK), Independent Bank Group (IBTX), Pacific Premier Bancorp (PPBI), FB Financial (FBK), Iris Energy (IREN), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), Lufax (LU), and FinVolution Group (FINV). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Guild vs.
Bread Financial (NYSE:BFH) and Guild (NYSE:GHLD) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.
Bread Financial presently has a consensus price target of $59.69, suggesting a potential upside of 4.97%. Guild has a consensus price target of $16.40, suggesting a potential upside of 32.53%. Given Guild's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Guild is more favorable than Bread Financial.
In the previous week, Bread Financial had 8 more articles in the media than Guild. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Bread Financial and 1 mentions for Guild. Guild's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Bread Financial's score of 0.56 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Bread Financial has higher revenue and earnings than Guild. Guild is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bread Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bread Financial has a beta of 1.93, meaning that its stock price is 93% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guild has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bread Financial has a net margin of 5.75% compared to Guild's net margin of -12.78%. Bread Financial's return on equity of 12.41% beat Guild's return on equity.
99.5% of Bread Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Bread Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 78.0% of Guild shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Guild received 3 more outperform votes than Bread Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 39.22% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 22.08% of users gave Bread Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Bread Financial beats Guild on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:GHLD) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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