RM vs. WRLD, ATLC, LPRO, LC, MIN, AOMR, WTBA, CARE, NRIM, and TWN
Should you be buying Regional Management stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Regional Management include World Acceptance (WRLD), Atlanticus (ATLC), Open Lending (LPRO), LendingClub (LC), MFS Intermediate Income Trust (MIN), Angel Oak Mortgage REIT (AOMR), West Bancorporation (WTBA), Carter Bankshares (CARE), Northrim BanCorp (NRIM), and The Taiwan Fund (TWN). 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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, community ranking, earnings, 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.
World Acceptance has a net margin of 13.49% compared to Regional Management's net margin of 4.01%. World Acceptance's return on equity of 18.88% beat Regional Management's return on equity.
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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Regional Management and Regional Management both had 1 articles in the media. World Acceptance's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Regional Management'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.
Regional Management currently has a consensus target price of $29.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.52%. World Acceptance has a consensus target price of $56.00, suggesting a potential downside of 57.22%. Given Regional Management's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Regional Management is more favorable than World Acceptance.
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.
Summary
World Acceptance beats Regional Management on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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