MAB1 vs. PAG, OSB, GROW, CORD, CHRY, PCFT, IPO, FSFL, CGI, and JEGI
Should you be buying Mortgage Advice Bureau stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mortgage Advice Bureau include Paragon Banking Group (PAG), OSB Group (OSB), Molten Ventures (GROW), Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), Polar Capital Global Financials (PCFT), IP Group (IPO), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Canadian General Investments (CGI), and JPMorgan European Growth & Income (JEGI). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Paragon Banking Group (LON:PAG) and Mortgage Advice Bureau (LON:MAB1) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Paragon Banking Group has a net margin of 39.13% compared to Paragon Banking Group's net margin of 5.68%. Paragon Banking Group's return on equity of 16.63% beat Mortgage Advice Bureau's return on equity.
75.8% of Paragon Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.4% of Mortgage Advice Bureau shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Paragon Banking Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 20.3% of Mortgage Advice Bureau shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Mortgage Advice Bureau had 1 more articles in the media than Paragon Banking Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Mortgage Advice Bureau and 1 mentions for Paragon Banking Group. Paragon Banking Group's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Mortgage Advice Bureau's score of 0.00 indicating that Mortgage Advice Bureau is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Paragon Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 37 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. Mortgage Advice Bureau pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Paragon Banking Group pays out 5,606.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Mortgage Advice Bureau pays out 12,173.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Paragon Banking Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Paragon Banking Group received 492 more outperform votes than Mortgage Advice Bureau when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 77.79% of users gave Paragon Banking Group an outperform vote while only 76.71% of users gave Mortgage Advice Bureau an outperform vote.
Paragon Banking Group currently has a consensus target price of GBX 696.67, suggesting a potential downside of 4.83%. Given Mortgage Advice Bureau's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Paragon Banking Group is more favorable than Mortgage Advice Bureau.
Paragon Banking Group has higher revenue and earnings than Mortgage Advice Bureau. Paragon Banking Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mortgage Advice Bureau, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Paragon Banking Group has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mortgage Advice Bureau has a beta of 1.13, suggesting that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Paragon Banking Group beats Mortgage Advice Bureau on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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