ATLC vs. RM, LPRO, WRLD, LC, OCSL, HIFS, CTO, ESQ, AROW, and NFBK
Should you be buying Atlanticus stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Atlanticus include Regional Management (RM), Open Lending (LPRO), World Acceptance (WRLD), LendingClub (LC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Hingham Institution for Savings (HIFS), CTO Realty Growth (CTO), Esquire Financial (ESQ), Arrow Financial (AROW), and Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (Staten Island, NY) (NFBK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Regional Management (NYSE:RM) and Atlanticus (NASDAQ:ATLC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Regional Management has a beta of 1.45, meaning that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atlanticus has a beta of 1.87, meaning that its share price is 87% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Regional Management presently has a consensus target price of $29.00, indicating a potential downside of 2.52%. Atlanticus has a consensus target price of $43.00, indicating a potential upside of 77.98%. Given Regional Management's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Atlanticus is more favorable than Regional Management.
Atlanticus has a net margin of 8.67% compared to Atlanticus' net margin of 4.01%. Regional Management's return on equity of 26.67% beat Atlanticus' return on equity.
Regional Management received 177 more outperform votes than Atlanticus when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.83% of users gave Atlanticus an outperform vote while only 59.40% of users gave Regional Management an outperform vote.
98.9% of Regional Management shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 14.2% of Atlanticus shares are held by institutional investors. 10.5% of Regional Management shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.8% of Atlanticus shares are held 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, Atlanticus had 7 more articles in the media than Regional Management. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Atlanticus and 1 mentions for Regional Management. Regional Management's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Atlanticus' score of 0.72 indicating that Atlanticus is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Atlanticus has higher revenue and earnings than Regional Management. Atlanticus is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Regional Management, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Atlanticus beats Regional Management on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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