WisdomTree (WT) Competitors

WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) and LandBridge (NYSE:LB) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, dividends, profitability and media sentiment.

Do analysts prefer WT or LB?

WisdomTree presently has a consensus target price of $11.96, suggesting a potential upside of 46.26%. LandBridge has a consensus target price of $59.44, suggesting a potential downside of 12.14%. Given WisdomTree's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than LandBridge.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
WisdomTree	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.38
LandBridge	1 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, WT or LB?

LandBridge has lower revenue, but higher earnings than WisdomTree. LandBridge is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WisdomTree, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
WisdomTree	$427.74M	2.81	$66.69M	$0.31	26.39
LandBridge	$109.95M	45.01	$260.42M	$3.56	19.01

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer WT or LB?

LandBridge received 925 more outperform votes than WisdomTree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave WisdomTree an outperform vote while only 59.16% of users gave LandBridge an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
WisdomTree	Outperform Votes 18 60.00%	Underperform Votes 12 40.00%
LandBridge	Outperform Votes 943 59.16%	Underperform Votes 651 40.84%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of WT or LB?

78.6% of WisdomTree shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of WisdomTree shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 17.8% of LandBridge shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is WT or LB a better dividend stock?

WisdomTree pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.5%. LandBridge pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. WisdomTree pays out 38.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. LandBridge pays out 11.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Is WT or LB more profitable?

WisdomTree has a net margin of 15.59% compared to LandBridge's net margin of 0.00%. WisdomTree's return on equity of 24.67% beat LandBridge's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
WisdomTree	15.59%	24.67%	10.27%
LandBridge	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media prefer WT or LB?

In the previous week, WisdomTree had 7 more articles in the media than LandBridge. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for WisdomTree and 5 mentions for LandBridge. LandBridge's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat WisdomTree's score of 0.63 indicating that LandBridge is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
WisdomTree	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
LandBridge	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

WisdomTree beats LandBridge on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.