AAME vs. CIA, HFBL, JFU, HUIZ, GROW, CIF, OPHC, MSVB, CPBI, and LICN
Should you be buying Atlantic American stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atlantic American include Citizens (CIA), Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL), 9F (JFU), Huize (HUIZ), U.S. Global Investors (GROW), MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (CIF), OptimumBank (OPHC), Mid-Southern Bancorp (MSVB), Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Grand Island (CPBI), and Lichen China (LICN). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Citizens (NYSE:CIA) and Atlantic American (NASDAQ:AAME) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Citizens received 68 more outperform votes than Atlantic American when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.45% of users gave Citizens an outperform vote while only 44.35% of users gave Atlantic American an outperform vote.
13.7% of Citizens shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.5% of Atlantic American shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Citizens shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 80.1% of Atlantic American shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Atlantic American had 4 more articles in the media than Citizens. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Atlantic American and 3 mentions for Citizens. Citizens' average media sentiment score of -0.14 beat Atlantic American's score of -0.15 indicating that Atlantic American is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Citizens has a net margin of 9.94% compared to Citizens' net margin of -0.39%. Atlantic American's return on equity of 14.46% beat Citizens' return on equity.
Citizens has a beta of 0.17, suggesting that its stock price is 83% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atlantic American has a beta of 0.43, suggesting that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Citizens has higher revenue and earnings than Atlantic American. Atlantic American is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Citizens, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Citizens beats Atlantic American on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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