AGM vs. GSKY, MBIN, ENVA, RC, ECPG, MTG, RDN, SMPL, TFSL, and WD
Should you be buying Federal Agricultural Mortgage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Federal Agricultural Mortgage include GreenSky (GSKY), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), Enova International (ENVA), Ready Capital (RC), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), MGIC Investment (MTG), Radian Group (RDN), Simply Good Foods (SMPL), TFS Financial (TFSL), and Walker & Dunlop (WD).
GreenSky (NASDAQ:GSKY) and Federal Agricultural Mortgage (NYSE:AGM) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a consensus price target of $212.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.28%. Given GreenSky's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Federal Agricultural Mortgage is more favorable than GreenSky.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage has higher revenue and earnings than GreenSky. Federal Agricultural Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GreenSky, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a net margin of 13.79% compared to Federal Agricultural Mortgage's net margin of 8.13%. GreenSky's return on equity of 22.01% beat Federal Agricultural Mortgage's return on equity.
GreenSky has a beta of 1.4, meaning that its share price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a beta of 1.03, meaning that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
GreenSky received 20 more outperform votes than Federal Agricultural Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.88% of users gave Federal Agricultural Mortgage an outperform vote while only 61.34% of users gave GreenSky an outperform vote.
41.5% of GreenSky shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. 52.6% of GreenSky 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 company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Federal Agricultural Mortgage had 3 more articles in the media than GreenSky. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Federal Agricultural Mortgage and 0 mentions for GreenSky. GreenSky's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Federal Agricultural Mortgage's score of 0.26 indicating that Federal Agricultural Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Federal Agricultural Mortgage beats GreenSky on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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