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ECN Capital (ECN) Competitors

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C$2.83 +0.04 (+1.43%)
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ECN vs. HCG, MKP, TF, AI, FC, TII, BCF, FDI, FN, and TSU

Should you be buying ECN Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECN Capital include Home Capital Group (HCG), MCAN Mortgage (MKP), Timbercreek Financial (TF), Atrium Mortgage Investment (AI), Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FC), Terra Firma Capital (TII), Builders Capital Mortgage (BCF), Findev (FDI), First National Financial (FN), and Trisura Group (TSU). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.

ECN Capital vs.

Home Capital Group (TSE:HCG) and ECN Capital (TSE:ECN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.

Home Capital Group pays an annual dividend of C$0.60 per share. ECN Capital pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Home Capital Group pays out 13.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ECN Capital pays out -17.9% 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. ECN Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

33.1% of Home Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of ECN Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Home Capital Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 18.3% of ECN Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

ECN Capital has a consensus target price of C$2.77, indicating a potential downside of 2.12%. Given Home Capital Group's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Home Capital Group is more favorable than ECN Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Home Capital Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
ECN Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Home Capital Group has a beta of 1.94, indicating that its stock price is 94% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECN Capital has a beta of 1.35, indicating that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Home Capital Group has a net margin of 33.98% compared to ECN Capital's net margin of -24.40%. Home Capital Group's return on equity of 10.77% beat ECN Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Home Capital Group33.98% 10.77% 0.77%
ECN Capital -24.40%-21.93%-4.85%

Home Capital Group received 13 more outperform votes than ECN Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.53% of users gave ECN Capital an outperform vote while only 45.99% of users gave Home Capital Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Home Capital GroupOutperform Votes
333
45.99%
Underperform Votes
391
54.01%
ECN CapitalOutperform Votes
320
66.53%
Underperform Votes
161
33.47%

Home Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than ECN Capital. ECN Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Home Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Home Capital GroupC$512.55M0.00C$174.16MC$4.48N/A
ECN CapitalC$131.39M4.32-C$32.06M-C$0.22-12.64

In the previous week, ECN Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Home Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for ECN Capital and 0 mentions for Home Capital Group. Home Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ECN Capital'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Home Capital Group Neutral
ECN Capital Neutral

Summary

Home Capital Group beats ECN Capital on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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ECN vs. The Competition

MetricECN CapitalMortgage Finance IndustryFinancial SectorTSE Exchange
Market CapC$567.93MC$704.09MC$3.84BC$5.66B
Dividend Yield1.68%7.03%4.21%6.84%
P/E Ratio-12.648.7513.0428.66
Price / Sales4.3257.321,692.40573.41
Price / Cash33.2126.1950.4983.20
Price / Book3.691.823.423.70
Net Income-C$32.06MC$78.23MC$1.25BC$301.04M
7 Day Performance1.43%0.67%1.34%0.11%
1 Month Performance10.98%3.92%13.21%-0.38%
1 Year Performance59.89%15.15%12.82%13.83%

ECN Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ECN
ECN Capital
0.702 of 5 stars
C$2.83
+1.4%
C$2.77
-2.1%
+58.5%C$567.93MC$131.39M-12.64620
HCG
Home Capital Group
N/AN/AN/AN/AC$1.69BC$512.55M9.88836
MKP
MCAN Mortgage
1.1263 of 5 stars
C$18.63
-0.2%
C$19.00
+2.0%
+20.9%C$725.91MC$173.49M7.94142
TF
Timbercreek Financial
1.6374 of 5 stars
C$6.98
+0.4%
C$7.98
+14.3%
-7.2%C$575.99MC$168.21M9.80N/A
AI
Atrium Mortgage Investment
1.373 of 5 stars
C$10.91
-0.8%
C$12.78
+17.1%
-1.8%C$517.45MC$78.44M10.36700
FC
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment
N/AC$11.85
-0.1%
N/A+9.9%C$437.48MC$72.77M12.391,150
TII
Terra Firma Capital
N/AC$7.25
-0.5%
N/A+0.0%C$40.46MC$5.09M22.6633,000
BCF
Builders Capital Mortgage
N/AC$8.69
+0.9%
C$10.09
+16.1%
+1.6%C$19.55MN/A8.36N/A
FDI
Findev
N/AC$0.49
-3.9%
N/A+12.5%C$14.04MC$3.61M7.00N/A
FN
First National Financial
3.0421 of 5 stars
C$40.46
+0.1%
C$43.00
+6.3%
-2.4%C$2.43BC$1.73B13.171,772Analyst Forecast
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TSU
Trisura Group
2.1699 of 5 stars
C$37.75
+1.3%
C$53.44
+41.6%
-10.0%C$1.81BC$2.97B16.239,700Analyst Revision
News Coverage

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