NAVI vs. WT, TIGR, AC, GAMI, OPY, PIPR, VIRT, FRHC, RNST, and TFIN
Should you be buying Navient stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Navient include WisdomTree (WT), UP Fintech (TIGR), Associated Capital Group (AC), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), Oppenheimer (OPY), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Virtu Financial (VIRT), Freedom (FRHC), Renasant (RNST), and Triumph Financial (TFIN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
WisdomTree (NYSE:WT) and Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and profitability.
WisdomTree currently has a consensus target price of $10.88, indicating a potential upside of 15.08%. Navient has a consensus target price of $16.10, indicating a potential upside of 4.41%. Given Navient's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe WisdomTree is more favorable than Navient.
WisdomTree pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. WisdomTree pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navient pays out 41.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Navient received 411 more outperform votes than WisdomTree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.00% of users gave WisdomTree an outperform vote while only 48.68% of users gave Navient an outperform vote.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than WisdomTree. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than WisdomTree, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
78.6% of WisdomTree shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Navient shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of WisdomTree shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of Navient shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Navient had 1 more articles in the media than WisdomTree. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Navient and 3 mentions for WisdomTree. WisdomTree's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Navient's score of 0.46 indicating that Navient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
WisdomTree has a net margin of 29.80% compared to WisdomTree's net margin of 3.93%. Navient's return on equity of 16.31% beat WisdomTree's return on equity.
WisdomTree has a beta of 1.48, suggesting that its stock price is 48% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Navient has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
WisdomTree beats Navient on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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