AGM vs. TOWN, OBDE, EXPI, MSDL, TSLX, ITCLY, HTLF, SBCF, UE, and TRMK Should you be buying Federal Agricultural Mortgage stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Federal Agricultural Mortgage include TowneBank (TOWN), Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), eXp World (EXPI), Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), Banco Itau Chile Spon (ITCLY), Heartland Financial USA (HTLF), Seacoast Banking Co. of Florida (SBCF), Urban Edge Properties (UE), and Trustmark (TRMK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
TowneBank (NASDAQ:TOWN ) and Federal Agricultural Mortgage (NYSE:AGM ) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and valuation.
56.0% of TowneBank shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.0% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are held by institutional investors. 8.1% of TowneBank shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
TowneBank has a net margin of 15.50% compared to TowneBank's net margin of 13.79%. TowneBank's return on equity of 22.01% beat Federal Agricultural Mortgage's return on equity.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage has higher revenue and earnings than TowneBank. Federal Agricultural Mortgage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TowneBank, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
TowneBank pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Federal Agricultural Mortgage pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. TowneBank pays out 49.8% 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. TowneBank has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Federal Agricultural Mortgage has increased its dividend for 13 consecutive years.
TowneBank has a beta of 0.89, indicating that its stock price is 11% less 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.
In the previous week, Federal Agricultural Mortgage had 2 more articles in the media than TowneBank. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Federal Agricultural Mortgage and 4 mentions for TowneBank. TowneBank's average media sentiment score of 1.30 beat Federal Agricultural Mortgage's score of 0.94 indicating that Federal Agricultural Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage received 13 more outperform votes than TowneBank when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.88% of users gave Federal Agricultural Mortgage an outperform vote while only 55.41% of users gave TowneBank an outperform vote.
TowneBank presently has a consensus price target of $29.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.09%. Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a consensus price target of $212.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.59%. Given TowneBank's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Federal Agricultural Mortgage is more favorable than TowneBank.
Summary Federal Agricultural Mortgage beats TowneBank on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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