First Guaranty Bancshares (FGBIP) Competitors

First Guaranty Bancshares (NASDAQ:FGBIP) and Atlanticus (NASDAQ:ATLCP) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Which has better earnings and valuation, FGBIP or ATLCP?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
First Guaranty Bancshares	$111.51M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Atlanticus	$299.40M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is FGBIP or ATLCP more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
First Guaranty Bancshares	N/A	N/A	N/A
Atlanticus	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community favor FGBIP or ATLCP?

First Guaranty Bancshares and Atlanticus both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
First Guaranty Bancshares	N/A	N/A
Atlanticus	N/A	N/A

Does the media prefer FGBIP or ATLCP?

In the previous week, First Guaranty Bancshares had 1 more articles in the media than Atlanticus. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for First Guaranty Bancshares and 0 mentions for Atlanticus. Atlanticus' average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat First Guaranty Bancshares' score of 0.44 indicating that Atlanticus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
First Guaranty Bancshares	Neutral
Atlanticus	Very Positive

Is FGBIP or ATLCP a better dividend stock?

First Guaranty Bancshares pays an annual dividend of $1.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. Atlanticus pays an annual dividend of $1.91 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%.

Summary

First Guaranty Bancshares and Atlanticus tied by winning 2 of the 4 factors compared between the two stocks.