ATLC vs. RM, LPRO, WRLD, LC, OCSL, CTO, RDZN, HRZN, CCNE, and FSBC
Should you be buying Atlanticus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atlanticus include Regional Management (RM), Open Lending (LPRO), World Acceptance (WRLD), LendingClub (LC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Roadzen (RDZN), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), CNB Financial (CCNE), and Five Star Bancorp (FSBC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Atlanticus (NASDAQ:ATLC) and Regional Management (NYSE:RM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings and risk.
Atlanticus currently has a consensus target price of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 68.36%. Regional Management has a consensus target price of $30.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.30%. Given Atlanticus' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Atlanticus is more favorable than Regional Management.
Atlanticus has higher revenue and earnings than Regional Management. Atlanticus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regional Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atlanticus has a net margin of 8.90% compared to Regional Management's net margin of 2.89%. Atlanticus' return on equity of 27.93% beat Regional Management's return on equity.
Atlanticus has a beta of 1.84, suggesting that its share price is 84% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Regional Management has a beta of 1.47, suggesting that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Regional Management had 3 more articles in the media than Atlanticus. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Regional Management and 2 mentions for Atlanticus. Atlanticus' average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Regional Management's score of -0.08 indicating that Atlanticus is being referred to more favorably in the media.
14.2% of Atlanticus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.9% of Regional Management shares are held by institutional investors. 52.4% of Atlanticus shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.8% of Regional Management shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Regional Management received 179 more outperform votes than Atlanticus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.23% of users gave Atlanticus an outperform vote while only 59.44% of users gave Regional Management an outperform vote.
Summary
Atlanticus beats Regional Management on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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