AGM vs. MBIN, ENVA, RC, ECPG, WRLD, LC, TSLX, USA, GAB, and TY
Should you be buying Federal Agricultural Mortgage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Federal Agricultural Mortgage include Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Enova International (ENVA), Ready Capital (RC), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), World Acceptance (WRLD), LendingClub (LC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), and Tri-Continental (TY).
Merchants Bancorp (NASDAQ:MBIN) and Federal Agricultural Mortgage (NYSE:AGM) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.
Merchants Bancorp has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Federal Agricultural Mortgage. Merchants Bancorp is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Federal Agricultural Mortgage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage received 17 more outperform votes than Merchants Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.78% of users gave Federal Agricultural Mortgage an outperform vote while only 64.31% of users gave Merchants Bancorp an outperform vote.
Merchants Bancorp has a net margin of 23.55% compared to Merchants Bancorp's net margin of 14.13%. Federal Agricultural Mortgage's return on equity of 27.51% beat Merchants Bancorp's return on equity.
24.6% of Merchants Bancorp shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. 39.7% of Merchants Bancorp shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Merchants Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Federal Agricultural Mortgage pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Merchants Bancorp pays out 5.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Federal Agricultural Mortgage pays out 35.4% 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. Merchants Bancorp has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Federal Agricultural Mortgage has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Federal Agricultural Mortgage is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Merchants Bancorp presently has a consensus price target of $46.50, suggesting a potential upside of 7.69%. Given Federal Agricultural Mortgage's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Merchants Bancorp is more favorable than Federal Agricultural Mortgage.
In the previous week, Merchants Bancorp had 3 more articles in the media than Federal Agricultural Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Merchants Bancorp and 3 mentions for Federal Agricultural Mortgage. Federal Agricultural Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Merchants Bancorp's score of 0.48 indicating that Merchants Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Merchants Bancorp has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Merchants Bancorp beats Federal Agricultural Mortgage on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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