VIRT vs. FRHC, PIPR, NAVI, WT, TIGR, MKTX, SF, SEIC, JEF, and AB
Should you be buying Virtu Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virtu Financial include Freedom (FRHC), Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR), Navient (NAVI), WisdomTree (WT), UP Fintech (TIGR), MarketAxess (MKTX), Stifel Financial (SF), SEI Investments (SEIC), Jefferies Financial Group (JEF), and AllianceBernstein (AB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Virtu Financial (NASDAQ:VIRT) and Freedom (NASDAQ:FRHC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings and profitability.
Virtu Financial presently has a consensus target price of $22.24, indicating a potential downside of 5.19%. Given Virtu Financial's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Virtu Financial is more favorable than Freedom.
Virtu Financial received 362 more outperform votes than Freedom when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.73% of users gave Virtu Financial an outperform vote while only 45.00% of users gave Freedom an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Virtu Financial had 15 more articles in the media than Freedom. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Virtu Financial and 2 mentions for Freedom. Virtu Financial's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Freedom's score of 0.18 indicating that Virtu Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Virtu Financial has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freedom has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Freedom has a net margin of 23.96% compared to Virtu Financial's net margin of 6.04%. Freedom's return on equity of 37.71% beat Virtu Financial's return on equity.
Freedom has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Virtu Financial.
45.8% of Virtu Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of Freedom shares are held by institutional investors. 44.8% of Virtu Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 71.6% of Freedom shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Virtu Financial beats Freedom on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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