VEL vs. UPST, PWP, CIFR, SII, IREN, ML, CORZ, HUT, PGY, and HKD
Should you be buying Velocity Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Velocity Financial include Upstart (UPST), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Sprott (SII), Iris Energy (IREN), MoneyLion (ML), Core Scientific (CORZ), Hut 8 (HUT), Pagaya Technologies (PGY), and AMTD Digital (HKD). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Velocity Financial (NYSE:VEL) and Upstart (NASDAQ:UPST) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation and earnings.
Velocity Financial currently has a consensus price target of $17.75, indicating a potential downside of 2.31%. Upstart has a consensus price target of $26.78, indicating a potential upside of 10.29%. Given Upstart's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Upstart is more favorable than Velocity Financial.
Velocity Financial has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Upstart has a beta of 2.01, suggesting that its stock price is 101% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Upstart had 9 more articles in the media than Velocity Financial. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Upstart and 4 mentions for Velocity Financial. Upstart's average media sentiment score of -0.05 beat Velocity Financial's score of -0.21 indicating that Upstart is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Velocity Financial has a net margin of 52.16% compared to Upstart's net margin of -32.59%. Velocity Financial's return on equity of 14.02% beat Upstart's return on equity.
97.5% of Velocity Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 63.0% of Upstart shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Velocity Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.1% of Upstart shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Velocity Financial received 49 more outperform votes than Upstart when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.31% of users gave Velocity Financial an outperform vote while only 32.65% of users gave Upstart an outperform vote.
Velocity Financial has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Upstart. Upstart is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Velocity Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Velocity Financial beats Upstart on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding VEL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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