CIA vs. AAME, VERY, EBMT, GECC, SSSS, OPI, MRBK, CHMI, MGF, and FXNC
Should you be buying Citizens stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Citizens include Atlantic American (AAME), Vericity (VERY), Eagle Bancorp Montana (EBMT), Great Elm Capital (GECC), SuRo Capital (SSSS), Office Properties Income Trust (OPI), Meridian (MRBK), Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment (CHMI), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), and First National (FXNC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Atlantic American (NASDAQ:AAME) and Citizens (NYSE:CIA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
In the previous week, Citizens had 2 more articles in the media than Atlantic American. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Citizens and 2 mentions for Atlantic American. Citizens' average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Atlantic American's score of 0.36 indicating that Atlantic American is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Citizens received 68 more outperform votes than Atlantic American when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.62% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote while only 44.88% of users gave Atlantic American an outperform vote.
5.5% of Atlantic American shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.7% of Citizens shares are owned by institutional investors. 80.0% of Atlantic American shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of Citizens shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Citizens has a net margin of 10.15% compared to Citizens' net margin of -0.09%. Atlantic American's return on equity of 15.61% beat Citizens' return on equity.
Citizens has higher revenue and earnings than Atlantic American. Atlantic American is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atlantic American has a beta of 0.32, meaning that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Citizens has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its stock price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Citizens beats Atlantic American on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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