Dave Inc./DE vs Rocket Companies, Inc., two Mortgage Finance stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
What is priced in: Rocket at 115.2 times trough earnings assumes the mortgage cycle turns and the Redfin-to-servicing flywheel spins; Dave at 22.4 times assumes a cash-advance app keeps compounding its 37.2% net margin. The first is a macro call wearing a platform, the second a unit-economics story wearing a small cap. Rocket's 1% return on equity is cyclical hibernation; Dave's 110% headline is small-base heat (42.4% on assets is the sober version). The market sizes the macro call at $43B and the unit economics at $5B. Rocket needs the Federal Reserve; Dave needs only its own retention curves. Prices this different are rarely about the same industry, and here they nearly aren't.
Comparison updated 2026-07-10.
| Metric | DAVE | RKT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $348.69 | $14.97 |
| Market cap | $5.0B | $42.6B |
| Sector | Financial Services | Financial Services |
| Stage | Growth | Growth |
| P/E | 22.4 | 115.2 |
| P/B | 24.64 | 1.83 |
| P/S | 8.30 | 4.99 |
| EV/EBITDA | 3009.7 | 123.1 |
| Revenue growth | +59.1% | +92.1% |
| Net margin | 37.2% | 2.8% |
| Return on equity | 110.4% | 1.0% |
| Return on assets | 42.4% | 0.4% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.45 |
| Current ratio | 3.86 | — |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.21 | 0.86 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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