CORZ vs. WD, QFIN, RIOT, LU, UPST, PWP, SII, IREN, CIFR, and ML
Should you be buying Core Scientific stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Core Scientific include Walker & Dunlop (WD), Qifu Technology (QFIN), Riot Platforms (RIOT), Lufax (LU), Upstart (UPST), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Sprott (SII), Iris Energy (IREN), Cipher Mining (CIFR), and MoneyLion (ML). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) and Walker & Dunlop (NYSE:WD) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
Core Scientific currently has a consensus price target of $7.83, indicating a potential downside of 2.81%. Walker & Dunlop has a consensus price target of $100.00, indicating a potential upside of 9.21%. Given Walker & Dunlop's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Walker & Dunlop is more favorable than Core Scientific.
Walker & Dunlop has higher revenue and earnings than Core Scientific.
81.0% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Walker & Dunlop shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Walker & Dunlop received 302 more outperform votes than Core Scientific when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.23% of users gave Walker & Dunlop an outperform vote while only 43.24% of users gave Core Scientific an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Core Scientific had 17 more articles in the media than Walker & Dunlop. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Core Scientific and 2 mentions for Walker & Dunlop. Core Scientific's average media sentiment score of 0.35 beat Walker & Dunlop's score of 0.00 indicating that Core Scientific is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Walker & Dunlop has a net margin of 8.87% compared to Core Scientific's net margin of 0.00%. Walker & Dunlop's return on equity of 9.16% beat Core Scientific's return on equity.
Summary
Walker & Dunlop beats Core Scientific on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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