IRS vs. ECC, BRKL, FBMS, CTBI, DX, BRSP, BDN, FMBH, AMAL, and ABL
Should you be buying IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima include Eagle Point Credit (ECC), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), First Bancshares (FBMS), Community Trust Bancorp (CTBI), Dynex Capital (DX), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), and Abacus Life (ABL). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Eagle Point Credit (NYSE:ECC) and IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (NYSE:IRS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Eagle Point Credit presently has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.59%. Given IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Eagle Point Credit is more favorable than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima.
Eagle Point Credit pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.6%. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.1%. Eagle Point Credit pays out 94.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima pays out 247.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eagle Point Credit is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Eagle Point Credit received 112 more outperform votes than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.86% of users gave Eagle Point Credit an outperform vote while only 51.20% of users gave IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima an outperform vote.
Eagle Point Credit has a net margin of 84.05% compared to Eagle Point Credit's net margin of 8.94%. Eagle Point Credit's return on equity of 25.67% beat IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's return on equity.
In the previous week, IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima had 3 more articles in the media than Eagle Point Credit. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima and 3 mentions for Eagle Point Credit. Eagle Point Credit's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima's score of -0.50 indicating that IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has higher revenue and earnings than Eagle Point Credit. Eagle Point Credit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
19.5% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.5% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 25.1% of IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Eagle Point Credit has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima beats Eagle Point Credit on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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