NAVI vs. WDR, COWN, FRHC, PIPR, VIRT, CS, WT, AC, TIGR, and GAMI
Should you be buying Navient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navient include Waddell & Reed Financial (WDR), Cowen (COWN), Freedom (FRHC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Credit Suisse Group (CS), WisdomTree (WT), Associated Capital Group (AC), UP Fintech (TIGR), and GAMCO Investors (GAMI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) and Waddell & Reed Financial (NYSE:WDR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than Waddell & Reed Financial. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Waddell & Reed Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Navient received 31 more outperform votes than Waddell & Reed Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 48.68% of users gave Navient an outperform vote while only 47.93% of users gave Waddell & Reed Financial an outperform vote.
Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Waddell & Reed Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Navient pays out 41.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Waddell & Reed Financial pays out 53.2% 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. Navient is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Waddell & Reed Financial has a net margin of 9.17% compared to Navient's net margin of 3.93%. Waddell & Reed Financial's return on equity of 14.57% beat Navient's return on equity.
Navient has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Waddell & Reed Financial has a beta of 1.44, indicating that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.
97.1% of Navient shares are held by institutional investors. 28.0% of Navient shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Waddell & Reed Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Navient had 3 more articles in the media than Waddell & Reed Financial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Navient and 0 mentions for Waddell & Reed Financial. Navient's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat Waddell & Reed Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that Navient is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Navient presently has a consensus target price of $16.10, suggesting a potential upside of 6.83%. Given Navient's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Navient is more favorable than Waddell & Reed Financial.
Summary
Navient beats Waddell & Reed Financial on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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