AGM vs. FRME, PLMR, MSDL, UE, DRH, TSLX, TOWN, FFBC, SBCF, and SPNT
Should you be buying Federal Agricultural Mortgage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Federal Agricultural Mortgage include First Merchants (FRME), Palomar (PLMR), Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL), Urban Edge Properties (UE), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), TowneBank (TOWN), First Financial Bancorp. (FFBC), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), and SiriusPoint (SPNT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage (NYSE:AGM) and First Merchants (NASDAQ:FRME) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, dividends and earnings.
First Merchants has a consensus price target of $38.00, suggesting a potential upside of 11.54%. Given First Merchants' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe First Merchants is more favorable than Federal Agricultural Mortgage.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, First Merchants has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
First Merchants has a net margin of 22.39% compared to Federal Agricultural Mortgage's net margin of 14.13%. Federal Agricultural Mortgage's return on equity of 22.68% beat First Merchants' return on equity.
68.0% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.9% of First Merchants shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.3% of First Merchants shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. First Merchants pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Federal Agricultural Mortgage pays out 35.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. First Merchants pays out 36.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
First Merchants received 135 more outperform votes than Federal Agricultural Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.78% of users gave Federal Agricultural Mortgage an outperform vote while only 59.97% of users gave First Merchants an outperform vote.
First Merchants has higher revenue and earnings than Federal Agricultural Mortgage. First Merchants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Federal Agricultural Mortgage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, First Merchants had 3 more articles in the media than Federal Agricultural Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for First Merchants and 4 mentions for Federal Agricultural Mortgage. Federal Agricultural Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat First Merchants' score of 0.18 indicating that Federal Agricultural Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
First Merchants beats Federal Agricultural Mortgage on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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