ECC vs. CGBD, AMBC, CNOB, BRKL, FMBH, FBMS, WRLD, DX, CTBI, and AMTB
Should you be buying Eagle Point Credit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Point Credit include Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), Ambac Financial Group (AMBC), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), First Bancshares (FBMS), World Acceptance (WRLD), Dynex Capital (DX), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), and Amerant Bancorp (AMTB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Eagle Point Credit (NYSE:ECC) and Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Eagle Point Credit had 2 more articles in the media than Carlyle Secured Lending. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Eagle Point Credit and 4 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending. Carlyle Secured Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat Eagle Point Credit's score of -0.17 indicating that Carlyle Secured Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
19.5% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Point Credit pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.5%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Eagle Point Credit pays out 90.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Carlyle Secured Lending pays out 93.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eagle Point Credit is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Eagle Point Credit has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Carlyle Secured Lending. Eagle Point Credit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carlyle Secured Lending, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eagle Point Credit has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Eagle Point Credit received 96 more outperform votes than Carlyle Secured Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.86% of users gave Eagle Point Credit an outperform vote while only 57.72% of users gave Carlyle Secured Lending an outperform vote.
Eagle Point Credit currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.74%. Carlyle Secured Lending has a consensus price target of $16.00, indicating a potential downside of 9.76%. Given Eagle Point Credit's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Eagle Point Credit is more favorable than Carlyle Secured Lending.
Eagle Point Credit has a net margin of 88.90% compared to Carlyle Secured Lending's net margin of 38.15%. Eagle Point Credit's return on equity of 14.21% beat Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity.
Summary
Eagle Point Credit beats Carlyle Secured Lending on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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