CCAP vs. LU, UPST, PWP, CIFR, SII, IREN, ML, CORZ, HUT, and PGY
Should you be buying Crescent Capital BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crescent Capital BDC include Lufax (LU), Upstart (UPST), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Sprott (SII), Iris Energy (IREN), MoneyLion (ML), Core Scientific (CORZ), Hut 8 (HUT), and Pagaya Technologies (PGY). These companies are all part of the "nondepository credit institutions" industry.
Lufax (NYSE:LU) and Crescent Capital BDC (NASDAQ:CCAP) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and risk.
Lufax pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. Crescent Capital BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Lufax pays out -178.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Crescent Capital BDC pays out 58.4% 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.
Lufax has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Crescent Capital BDC has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crescent Capital BDC has a net margin of 53.32% compared to Crescent Capital BDC's net margin of -2.17%. Lufax's return on equity of 11.99% beat Crescent Capital BDC's return on equity.
Lufax has higher revenue and earnings than Crescent Capital BDC. Lufax is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crescent Capital BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lufax currently has a consensus price target of $6.40, indicating a potential upside of 42.86%. Crescent Capital BDC has a consensus price target of $18.75, indicating a potential upside of 3.36%. Given Crescent Capital BDC's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Lufax is more favorable than Crescent Capital BDC.
In the previous week, Crescent Capital BDC had 3 more articles in the media than Lufax. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Crescent Capital BDC and 5 mentions for Lufax. Lufax's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Crescent Capital BDC's score of 0.45 indicating that Crescent Capital BDC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
69.1% of Lufax shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.5% of Crescent Capital BDC shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Crescent Capital BDC 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.
Crescent Capital BDC received 7 more outperform votes than Lufax when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.56% of users gave Crescent Capital BDC an outperform vote while only 43.40% of users gave Lufax an outperform vote.
Summary
Crescent Capital BDC beats Lufax on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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