AI vs. ECN, MKP, TF, FC, FTN, DFN, LBS, VBNK, BK, and SEC
Should you be buying Atrium Mortgage Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atrium Mortgage Investment include ECN Capital (ECN), MCAN Mortgage (MKP), Timbercreek Financial (TF), Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FC), Financial 15 Split (FTN), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Life & Banc Split (LBS), VersaBank (VBNK), Canadian Banc (BK), and Senvest Capital (SEC). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Atrium Mortgage Investment (TSE:AI) and ECN Capital (TSE:ECN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Atrium Mortgage Investment currently has a consensus target price of C$12.97, suggesting a potential upside of 15.63%. ECN Capital has a consensus target price of C$2.29, suggesting a potential upside of 21.25%. Given ECN Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ECN Capital is more favorable than Atrium Mortgage Investment.
ECN Capital received 65 more outperform votes than Atrium Mortgage Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.46% of users gave Atrium Mortgage Investment an outperform vote while only 67.58% of users gave ECN Capital an outperform vote.
Atrium Mortgage Investment has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECN Capital has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Atrium Mortgage Investment has a net margin of 83.38% compared to ECN Capital's net margin of -134.34%. Atrium Mortgage Investment's return on equity of 10.75% beat ECN Capital's return on equity.
Atrium Mortgage Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ECN Capital. ECN Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atrium Mortgage Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, ECN Capital had 22 more articles in the media than Atrium Mortgage Investment. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for ECN Capital and 3 mentions for Atrium Mortgage Investment. Atrium Mortgage Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.36 beat ECN Capital's score of 0.17 indicating that Atrium Mortgage Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Atrium Mortgage Investment pays an annual dividend of C$0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. ECN Capital pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Atrium Mortgage Investment pays out 78.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ECN Capital pays out -6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
4.9% of Atrium Mortgage Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.3% of ECN Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 4.5% of Atrium Mortgage Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of ECN Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Atrium Mortgage Investment beats ECN Capital on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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