SWKH vs. TROO, IX, AMSF, HQH, RWT, IRS, HUT, BFC, ROOT, and BHRB
Should you be buying SWK stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SWK include TROOPS (TROO), ORIX (IX), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), Redwood Trust (RWT), IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS), Hut 8 (HUT), Bank First (BFC), Root (ROOT), and Burke & Herbert Financial Services (BHRB).
TROOPS (NASDAQ:TROO) and SWK (NASDAQ:SWKH) are both multi-sector conglomerates companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, valuation and risk.
99.3% of SWK shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of TROOPS shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of SWK shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SWK has a net margin of 30.19% compared to SWK's net margin of 0.00%. TROOPS's return on equity of 5.11% beat SWK's return on equity.
In the previous week, TROOPS had 21 more articles in the media than SWK. MarketBeat recorded 29 mentions for TROOPS and 8 mentions for SWK. TROOPS's average media sentiment score of 0.38 beat SWK's score of -0.05 indicating that SWK is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
TROOPS has a beta of 1.42, indicating that its stock price is 42% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SWK has a beta of 0.33, indicating that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SWK received 9 more outperform votes than TROOPS when rated by MarketBeat users.
SWK has higher revenue and earnings than TROOPS.
Summary
SWK beats TROOPS on 8 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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