First Merchants (FRMEP) Competitors

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

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, FRMEP or ATLCP?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
First Merchants	$633.33M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Atlanticus	$316.89M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is FRMEP or ATLCP more profitable?

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

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FRMEP or ATLCP?

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

Company	Underperform	Outperform
First Merchants	N/A	N/A
Atlanticus	N/A	N/A

Does the media prefer FRMEP or ATLCP?

In the previous week, First Merchants and First Merchants both had 2 articles in the media. Atlanticus' average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat First Merchants' score of 0.93 indicating that Atlanticus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
First Merchants	Positive
Atlanticus	Positive

Is FRMEP or ATLCP a better dividend stock?

First Merchants pays an annual dividend of $1.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. Atlanticus pays an annual dividend of $1.91 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%.

Summary

Atlanticus beats First Merchants on 2 of the 3 factors compared between the two stocks.