ML vs. QFIN, WD, RIOT, LU, UPST, PWP, CIFR, SII, IREN, and CORZ
Should you be buying MoneyLion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MoneyLion include Qifu Technology (QFIN), Walker & Dunlop (WD), Riot Platforms (RIOT), Lufax (LU), Upstart (UPST), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Sprott (SII), Iris Energy (IREN), and Core Scientific (CORZ). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Qifu Technology (NASDAQ:QFIN) and MoneyLion (NYSE:ML) are both business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Qifu Technology presently has a consensus price target of $24.73, indicating a potential upside of 28.02%. MoneyLion has a consensus price target of $78.60, indicating a potential downside of 20.20%. Given MoneyLion's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Qifu Technology is more favorable than MoneyLion.
74.8% of Qifu Technology shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.4% of MoneyLion shares are held by institutional investors. 17.1% of Qifu Technology shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.1% of MoneyLion shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Qifu Technology has a net margin of 26.80% compared to Qifu Technology's net margin of -6.42%. MoneyLion's return on equity of 20.96% beat Qifu Technology's return on equity.
Qifu Technology has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MoneyLion has a beta of 2.68, indicating that its stock price is 168% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Qifu Technology has higher revenue and earnings than MoneyLion. MoneyLion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Qifu Technology, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Qifu Technology and Qifu Technology both had 7 articles in the media. MoneyLion's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Qifu Technology's score of 0.24 indicating that Qifu Technology is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Qifu Technology received 90 more outperform votes than MoneyLion when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.59% of users gave MoneyLion an outperform vote while only 60.71% of users gave Qifu Technology an outperform vote.
Summary
Qifu Technology beats MoneyLion on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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