ERO vs. CGBD, ECC, BPRN, PDYPY, TWN, AXTA, ATI, FMC, CLF, and TX
Should you be buying Ero Copper stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ero Copper include Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), Eagle Point Credit (ECC), Princeton Bancorp (BPRN), Flutter Entertainment Public (PDYPY), The Taiwan Fund (TWN), Axalta Coating Systems (AXTA), ATI (ATI), FMC (FMC), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), and Ternium (TX).
Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) and Ero Copper (NYSE:ERO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.3% of Ero Copper shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ero Copper has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carlyle Secured Lending presently has a consensus price target of $17.00, suggesting a potential downside of 7.10%. Ero Copper has a consensus price target of $32.00, suggesting a potential upside of 65.37%. Given Carlyle Secured Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Ero Copper is more favorable than Carlyle Secured Lending.
Carlyle Secured Lending received 180 more outperform votes than Ero Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.54% of users gave Carlyle Secured Lending an outperform vote while only 21.88% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Ero Copper had 18 more articles in the media than Carlyle Secured Lending. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Ero Copper and 5 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending. Ero Copper's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Carlyle Secured Lending's score of 0.46 indicating that Carlyle Secured Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ero Copper has higher revenue and earnings than Carlyle Secured Lending. Carlyle Secured Lending is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ero Copper, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Carlyle Secured Lending has a net margin of 38.15% compared to Carlyle Secured Lending's net margin of 14.23%. Ero Copper's return on equity of 12.92% beat Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity.
Summary
Ero Copper beats Carlyle Secured Lending on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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