FC vs. ECN, AI, MKP, TF, FTN, VBNK, LBS, BK, OLY, and AIM
Should you be buying Firm Capital Mortgage Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Firm Capital Mortgage Investment include ECN Capital (ECN), Atrium Mortgage Investment (AI), MCAN Mortgage (MKP), Timbercreek Financial (TF), Financial 15 Split (FTN), VersaBank (VBNK), Life & Banc Split (LBS), Canadian Banc (BK), Olympia Financial Group (OLY), and Aimia (AIM). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (TSE:FC) 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 profitability, valuation, dividends, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
2.2% of Firm Capital Mortgage Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.3% of ECN Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Firm Capital 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ECN Capital. ECN Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Firm Capital Mortgage Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Firm Capital Mortgage Investment had 2 more articles in the media than ECN Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Firm Capital Mortgage Investment and 3 mentions for ECN Capital. Firm Capital Mortgage Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat ECN Capital's score of -0.62 indicating that Firm Capital Mortgage Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment pays an annual dividend of C$0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. ECN Capital pays an annual dividend of C$0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Firm Capital Mortgage Investment pays out 95.9% 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.
ECN Capital received 180 more outperform votes than Firm Capital Mortgage Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.87% of users gave ECN Capital an outperform vote while only 62.05% of users gave Firm Capital Mortgage Investment an outperform vote.
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment has a beta of 1.03, indicating that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ECN Capital has a beta of 1.22, indicating that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment presently has a consensus target price of C$13.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.82%. ECN Capital has a consensus target price of C$2.45, indicating a potential upside of 36.11%. Given ECN Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ECN Capital is more favorable than Firm Capital Mortgage Investment.
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment has a net margin of 73.49% compared to ECN Capital's net margin of -134.34%. Firm Capital Mortgage Investment's return on equity of 8.56% beat ECN Capital's return on equity.
Summary
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment beats ECN Capital on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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