AAME vs. CIA, SHFS, GROW, MSVB, JFU, HFBL, CPBI, BCOW, INTG, and CIZN
Should you be buying Atlantic American stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atlantic American include Citizens (CIA), SHF (SHFS), U.S. Global Investors (GROW), Mid-Southern Bancorp (MSVB), 9F (JFU), Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL), Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Grand Island (CPBI), 1895 Bancorp of Wisconsin (BCOW), The InterGroup (INTG), and Citizens (CIZN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Citizens (NYSE:CIA) and Atlantic American (NASDAQ:AAME) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Citizens received 68 more outperform votes than Atlantic American when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.45% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote while only 44.61% of users gave Atlantic American an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Citizens had 9 more articles in the media than Atlantic American. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Citizens and 6 mentions for Atlantic American. Citizens' average media sentiment score of 0.09 beat Atlantic American's score of -0.43 indicating that Atlantic American is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
13.7% of Citizens shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.5% of Atlantic American shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Citizens shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 80.1% of Atlantic American shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens has a beta of 0.17, indicating that its share price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atlantic American has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens has a net margin of 10.15% compared to Citizens' net margin of -0.09%. Atlantic American's return on equity of 15.61% beat Citizens' return on equity.
Citizens has higher revenue and earnings than Atlantic American. Atlantic American is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Citizens beats Atlantic American on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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