ATLC vs. EBC, AVAL, BUR, FHB, INTR, RIOT, AUB, PRK, CORZ, and LU
Should you be buying Atlanticus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atlanticus include Eastern Bankshares (EBC), Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores (AVAL), Burford Capital (BUR), First Hawaiian (FHB), Inter & Co, Inc. (INTR), Riot Platforms (RIOT), Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB), Park National (PRK), Core Scientific (CORZ), and Lufax (LU). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.
Atlanticus vs.
Atlanticus (NASDAQ:ATLC) and Eastern Bankshares (NASDAQ:EBC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
Eastern Bankshares has higher revenue and earnings than Atlanticus. Eastern Bankshares is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atlanticus, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Eastern Bankshares has a net margin of 11.07% compared to Atlanticus' net margin of 8.39%. Atlanticus' return on equity of 25.14% beat Eastern Bankshares' return on equity.
Atlanticus has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eastern Bankshares has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Atlanticus had 2 more articles in the media than Eastern Bankshares. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Atlanticus and 6 mentions for Eastern Bankshares. Eastern Bankshares' average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat Atlanticus' score of 1.40 indicating that Eastern Bankshares is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Atlanticus presently has a consensus target price of $62.60, suggesting a potential upside of 9.06%. Eastern Bankshares has a consensus target price of $19.25, suggesting a potential upside of 22.92%. Given Eastern Bankshares' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eastern Bankshares is more favorable than Atlanticus.
Atlanticus received 110 more outperform votes than Eastern Bankshares when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.76% of users gave Atlanticus an outperform vote while only 52.00% of users gave Eastern Bankshares an outperform vote.
14.1% of Atlanticus shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.7% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by institutional investors. 50.4% of Atlanticus shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Eastern Bankshares shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Atlanticus beats Eastern Bankshares on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ATLC) was last updated on 5/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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