AFCG vs. RM, MRLN, SWKH, CANG, AHH, LPA, HPP, FRPH, CRESY, and FPH
Should you be buying AFC Gamma stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of AFC Gamma include Regional Management (RM), Marlin Business Services (MRLN), SWK (SWKH), Cango (CANG), Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Latam Logistic Properties (LPA), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), FRP (FRPH), Cresud Sociedad Anónima, Comercial, Inmobiliaria, Financiera y Agropecuaria (CRESY), and Five Point (FPH).
Regional Management (NYSE:RM) and AFC Gamma (NASDAQ:AFCG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, dividends and earnings.
Regional Management presently has a consensus target price of $29.00, indicating a potential upside of 3.98%. AFC Gamma has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential downside of 17.70%. Given AFC Gamma's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Regional Management is more favorable than AFC Gamma.
98.9% of Regional Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.5% of AFC Gamma shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Regional Management shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 26.2% of AFC Gamma shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Regional Management has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, AFC Gamma has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Regional Management received 283 more outperform votes than AFC Gamma when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.28% of users gave Regional Management an outperform vote while only 48.28% of users gave AFC Gamma an outperform vote.
In the previous week, AFC Gamma had 2 more articles in the media than Regional Management. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for AFC Gamma and 3 mentions for Regional Management. Regional Management's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat AFC Gamma's score of 0.68 indicating that AFC Gamma is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
AFC Gamma has a net margin of 16.27% compared to AFC Gamma's net margin of 4.01%. Regional Management's return on equity of 11.77% beat AFC Gamma's return on equity.
Regional Management pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. AFC Gamma pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.8%. Regional Management pays out 52.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. AFC Gamma pays out 369.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
AFC Gamma has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Regional Management. Regional Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than AFC Gamma, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
AFC Gamma beats Regional Management on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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