LDI vs. CIFR, PWP, MBIN, CASH, HUT, NTB, WULF, BTDR, NIC, and CUBI
Should you be buying loanDepot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of loanDepot include Cipher Mining (CIFR), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Pathward Financial (CASH), Hut 8 (HUT), Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son (NTB), TeraWulf (WULF), Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), Nicolet Bankshares (NIC), and Customers Bancorp (CUBI). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
loanDepot vs.
Cipher Mining (NASDAQ:CIFR) and loanDepot (NYSE:LDI) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk and analyst recommendations.
Cipher Mining has higher earnings, but lower revenue than loanDepot. Cipher Mining is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than loanDepot, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cipher Mining presently has a consensus price target of $8.14, indicating a potential upside of 48.25%. loanDepot has a consensus price target of $2.60, indicating a potential upside of 60.00%. Given loanDepot's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe loanDepot is more favorable than Cipher Mining.
In the previous week, Cipher Mining had 1 more articles in the media than loanDepot. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Cipher Mining and 2 mentions for loanDepot. Cipher Mining's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat loanDepot's score of 0.00 indicating that Cipher Mining is being referred to more favorably in the media.
loanDepot has a net margin of -8.95% compared to Cipher Mining's net margin of -33.39%. Cipher Mining's return on equity of -8.29% beat loanDepot's return on equity.
12.3% of Cipher Mining shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.4% of loanDepot shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Cipher Mining shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 83.0% of loanDepot shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Cipher Mining received 32 more outperform votes than loanDepot when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 95.31% of users gave Cipher Mining an outperform vote while only 35.80% of users gave loanDepot an outperform vote.
Cipher Mining has a beta of 2.41, meaning that its stock price is 141% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, loanDepot has a beta of 3.37, meaning that its stock price is 237% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cipher Mining beats loanDepot on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:LDI) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
