ECN vs. AI, MKP, TF, FC, DFN, FTN, SEC, LBS, VBNK, and BITF
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), Timbercreek Financial (TF), Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FC), Dividend 15 Split (DFN), Financial 15 Split (FTN), Senvest Capital (SEC), Life & Banc Split (LBS), VersaBank (VBNK), and Bitfarms (BITF). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
ECN Capital (TSE:ECN) and Atrium Mortgage Investment (TSE:AI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
ECN Capital pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Atrium Mortgage Investment pays an annual dividend of C$0.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. ECN Capital pays out -6.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
49.3% of ECN Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.9% of Atrium Mortgage Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.4% of ECN Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.5% of Atrium Mortgage Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Atrium Mortgage Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
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 67.58% of users gave ECN Capital an outperform vote.
ECN Capital currently has a consensus price target of C$2.36, suggesting a potential upside of 25.38%. Atrium Mortgage Investment has a consensus price target of C$12.97, suggesting a potential upside of 16.77%. Given ECN Capital's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ECN Capital is more favorable than Atrium Mortgage Investment.
In the previous week, ECN Capital had 17 more articles in the media than Atrium Mortgage Investment. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for ECN Capital and 2 mentions for Atrium Mortgage Investment. Atrium Mortgage Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat ECN Capital's score of 0.16 indicating that Atrium Mortgage Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Atrium Mortgage Investment has a net margin of 83.38% compared to ECN Capital's net margin of -134.34%. Atrium Mortgage Investment's return on equity of 10.75% beat ECN Capital's return on equity.
ECN Capital has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atrium Mortgage Investment has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its share price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Atrium Mortgage Investment beats ECN Capital on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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