ECN vs. HCG, MKP, TF, AI, FC, TII, BCF, FDI, FN, and TSU
Should you be buying ECN Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECN Capital include Home Capital Group (HCG), MCAN Mortgage (MKP), Timbercreek Financial (TF), Atrium Mortgage Investment (AI), Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FC), Terra Firma Capital (TII), Builders Capital Mortgage (BCF), Findev (FDI), First National Financial (FN), and Trisura Group (TSU). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
ECN Capital (TSE:ECN) and Home Capital Group (TSE:HCG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability and community ranking.
ECN Capital currently has a consensus target price of C$2.29, indicating a potential upside of 28.03%.
Home Capital Group received 14 more outperform votes than ECN Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.58% of users gave ECN Capital an outperform vote while only 45.99% of users gave Home Capital Group an outperform vote.
49.3% of ECN Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.1% of Home Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 18.4% of ECN Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Home Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ECN Capital has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Home Capital Group has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Home Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than ECN Capital. ECN Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ECN Capital had 2 more articles in the media than Home Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for ECN Capital and 0 mentions for Home Capital Group. ECN Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Home Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that ECN Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
ECN Capital pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Home Capital Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share. ECN Capital pays out -6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Home Capital Group pays out 13.4% 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. ECN Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Home Capital Group has a net margin of 33.98% compared to ECN Capital's net margin of -134.34%. Home Capital Group's return on equity of 10.77% beat ECN Capital's return on equity.
Summary
Home Capital Group beats ECN Capital on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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