GHLD vs. NCDL, UWMC, OCN, FOA, RKT, PFSI, CLSK, VLY, TFSL, and CUZ
Should you be buying Guild stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Guild include Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), UWM (UWMC), Ocwen Financial (OCN), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Rocket Companies (RKT), PennyMac Financial Services (PFSI), CleanSpark (CLSK), Valley National Bancorp (VLY), TFS Financial (TFSL), and Cousins Properties (CUZ).
Guild (NYSE:GHLD) and Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, earnings and profitability.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to Guild's net margin of 3.41%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.28% beat Guild's return on equity.
Guild currently has a consensus target price of $15.60, indicating a potential upside of 7.59%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a consensus target price of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 2.89%. Given Guild's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Guild is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Guild.
17.5% of Guild shares are held by institutional investors. 78.0% of Guild shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Guild had 3 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Guild and 0 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Guild's average media sentiment score of 0.89 beat Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's score of 0.00 indicating that Guild is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Guild pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Guild pays out 238.1% 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 received 12 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 41.03% of users gave Guild an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote.
Summary
Guild and Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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