PFSI vs. NCDL, GHLD, UWMC, OCN, FOA, RKT, CINF, AER, CRBG, and NMR
Should you be buying PennyMac Financial Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennyMac Financial Services include Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), Guild (GHLD), UWM (UWMC), Ocwen Financial (OCN), Finance of America Companies (FOA), Rocket Companies (RKT), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), AerCap (AER), Corebridge Financial (CRBG), and Nomura (NMR).
PennyMac Financial Services (NYSE:PFSI) and Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NYSE:NCDL) are both 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.
PennyMac Financial Services received 385 more outperform votes than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.98% of users gave PennyMac Financial Services an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PennyMac Financial Services had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PennyMac Financial Services and 1 mentions for Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat PennyMac Financial Services' score of 1.31 indicating that Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
57.9% of PennyMac Financial Services shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of PennyMac Financial Services 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.
Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a net margin of 51.98% compared to PennyMac Financial Services' net margin of 10.94%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.28% beat PennyMac Financial Services' return on equity.
PennyMac Financial Services pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. PennyMac Financial Services pays out 27.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
PennyMac Financial Services currently has a consensus target price of $97.75, indicating a potential upside of 7.83%. Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending has a consensus target price of $18.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.46%. Given PennyMac Financial Services' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe PennyMac Financial Services is more favorable than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
PennyMac Financial Services has higher revenue and earnings than Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending.
Summary
PennyMac Financial Services beats Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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