AGM vs. EXPI, HTLF, TRMK, WAFD, CIXXF, AHR, DRH, USA, OBDE, and GCMG
Should you be buying Federal Agricultural Mortgage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Federal Agricultural Mortgage include eXp World (EXPI), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Trustmark (TRMK), WaFd (WAFD), CI Financial (CIXXF), American Healthcare REIT (AHR), DiamondRock Hospitality (DRH), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), and GCM Grosvenor (GCMG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
eXp World (NASDAQ:EXPI) and Federal Agricultural Mortgage (NYSE:AGM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a net margin of 14.13% compared to Federal Agricultural Mortgage's net margin of -0.60%. eXp World's return on equity of 22.68% beat Federal Agricultural Mortgage's return on equity.
eXp World currently has a consensus price target of $12.88, suggesting a potential upside of 8.65%. Given eXp World's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Federal Agricultural Mortgage is more favorable than eXp World.
27.2% of eXp World shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.9% of eXp World shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage has lower revenue, but higher earnings than eXp World. eXp World is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Federal Agricultural Mortgage, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, eXp World had 13 more articles in the media than Federal Agricultural Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for eXp World and 13 mentions for Federal Agricultural Mortgage. eXp World's average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Federal Agricultural Mortgage's score of 0.76 indicating that Federal Agricultural Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
eXp World pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Federal Agricultural Mortgage pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. eXp World pays out -117.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Federal Agricultural Mortgage pays out 34.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. eXp World has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Federal Agricultural Mortgage has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Federal Agricultural Mortgage is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
eXp World received 21 more outperform votes than Federal Agricultural Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.48% of users gave eXp World an outperform vote while only 64.88% of users gave Federal Agricultural Mortgage an outperform vote.
eXp World has a beta of 2.29, indicating that its stock price is 129% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a beta of 1.08, indicating that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Federal Agricultural Mortgage beats eXp World on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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