NCDL vs. GHLD, ONIT, FOA, RKT, UWMC, PFSI, AX, OSCR, PJT, and TFSL
Should you be buying Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending include Guild (GHLD), Onity Group (ONIT), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Rocket Companies (RKT), UWM (UWMC), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), Axos Financial (AX), Oscar Health (OSCR), PJT Partners (PJT), and TFS Financial (TFSL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending vs.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) and Guild (NYSE:GHLD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
In the previous week, Guild had 22 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Guild and 1 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Guild's score of 0.26 indicating that Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending presently has a consensus target price of $17.75, indicating a potential upside of 3.11%. Guild has a consensus target price of $16.60, indicating a potential upside of 26.24%. Given Guild's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Guild has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
17.5% of Guild shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 78.0% of Guild shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Guild received 16 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 38.46% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Guild. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Guild, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 53.56% compared to Guild's net margin of -12.78%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.72% beat Guild's return on equity.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. Guild pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays out 83.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Guild pays out 64.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending and Guild tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NCDL) was last updated on 3/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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