HOOD vs. NMR, LPLA, JEF, HLI, SEIC, SF, MKTX, RJF, IBKR, and MAA
Should you be buying Robinhood Markets stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Robinhood Markets include Nomura (NMR), LPL Financial (LPLA), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), Houlihan Lokey (HLI), SEI Investments (SEIC), Stifel Financial (SF), MarketAxess (MKTX), Raymond James (RJF), Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), and Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) and Nomura (NYSE:NMR) are both large-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
Nomura received 189 more outperform votes than Robinhood Markets when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.15% of users gave Nomura an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Robinhood Markets an outperform vote.
93.3% of Robinhood Markets shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.1% of Nomura shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.8% of Robinhood Markets shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Nomura shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Robinhood Markets has a net margin of 6.22% compared to Nomura's net margin of 4.78%. Nomura's return on equity of 4.83% beat Robinhood Markets' return on equity.
Robinhood Markets has a beta of 1.74, suggesting that its share price is 74% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nomura has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Robinhood Markets had 53 more articles in the media than Nomura. MarketBeat recorded 55 mentions for Robinhood Markets and 2 mentions for Nomura. Robinhood Markets' average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Nomura's score of 0.59 indicating that Robinhood Markets is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nomura has higher revenue and earnings than Robinhood Markets. Nomura is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Robinhood Markets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Robinhood Markets currently has a consensus price target of $19.42, suggesting a potential upside of 8.51%. Given Robinhood Markets' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Robinhood Markets is more favorable than Nomura.
Summary
Robinhood Markets beats Nomura on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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