ECN vs. AI, MKP, FC, TF, FTN, DFN, VBNK, LBS, BK, and SEC
Should you be buying ECN Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ECN Capital include Atrium Mortgage Investment (AI), MCAN Mortgage (MKP), Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FC), Timbercreek Financial (TF), Financial 15 Split (FTN), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), VersaBank (VBNK), Life & Banc Split (LBS), Canadian Banc (BK), and Senvest Capital (SEC). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Atrium Mortgage Investment (TSE:AI) and ECN Capital (TSE:ECN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Atrium Mortgage Investment has a net margin of 83.38% compared to Atrium Mortgage Investment's net margin of -134.34%. ECN Capital's return on equity of 10.75% beat Atrium Mortgage Investment's return on equity.
ECN Capital received 65 more outperform votes than Atrium Mortgage Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.46% of users gave Atrium Mortgage Investment an outperform vote while only 67.87% of users gave ECN Capital an outperform vote.
5.5% of Atrium Mortgage Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.3% of ECN Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 4.4% of Atrium Mortgage Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of ECN Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Atrium Mortgage Investment has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECN Capital has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Atrium Mortgage Investment currently has a consensus target price of C$12.97, suggesting a potential upside of 15.52%. ECN Capital has a consensus target price of C$2.45, suggesting a potential upside of 36.87%. Given Atrium Mortgage Investment's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ECN Capital is more favorable than Atrium Mortgage Investment.
Atrium Mortgage Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ECN Capital. ECN Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atrium Mortgage Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Atrium Mortgage Investment pays an annual dividend of C$0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. ECN Capital pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Atrium Mortgage Investment pays out 78.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ECN Capital pays out -6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, ECN Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Atrium Mortgage Investment. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for ECN Capital and 1 mentions for Atrium Mortgage Investment. ECN Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Atrium Mortgage Investment'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Atrium Mortgage Investment beats ECN Capital on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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