LendingTree (TREE) Competitors

Federal Agricultural Mortgage (NYSE:AGM) and LendingTree (NASDAQ:TREE) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor AGM or TREE?

LendingTree received 403 more outperform votes than Federal Agricultural Mortgage when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.62% of users gave LendingTree an outperform vote while only 64.50% of users gave Federal Agricultural Mortgage an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Federal Agricultural Mortgage	Outperform Votes 218 64.50%	Underperform Votes 120 35.50%
LendingTree	Outperform Votes 621 68.62%	Underperform Votes 284 31.38%

Which has more risk & volatility, AGM or TREE?

Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, LendingTree has a beta of 2.11, meaning that its share price is 111% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in AGM or TREE?

68.0% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.3% of LendingTree shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Federal Agricultural Mortgage shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 23.4% of LendingTree shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has better valuation and earnings, AGM or TREE?

Federal Agricultural Mortgage has higher earnings, but lower revenue than LendingTree. LendingTree 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Federal Agricultural Mortgage	$358.82M	6.16	$200M	$15.55	13.07
LendingTree	$672.50M	0.87	-$122.40M	-$2.70	-16.14

Do analysts rate AGM or TREE?

Federal Agricultural Mortgage currently has a consensus price target of $215.00, suggesting a potential upside of 5.82%. LendingTree has a consensus price target of $64.00, suggesting a potential upside of 46.89%. Given LendingTree's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe LendingTree is more favorable than Federal Agricultural Mortgage.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Federal Agricultural Mortgage	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00
LendingTree	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75

Is AGM or TREE more profitable?

Federal Agricultural Mortgage has a net margin of 12.59% compared to LendingTree's net margin of -4.72%. Federal Agricultural Mortgage's return on equity of 20.14% beat LendingTree's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Federal Agricultural Mortgage	12.59%	20.14%	0.67%
LendingTree	-4.72%	0.51%	0.08%

Does the media prefer AGM or TREE?

In the previous week, LendingTree had 12 more articles in the media than Federal Agricultural Mortgage. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for LendingTree and 1 mentions for Federal Agricultural Mortgage. Federal Agricultural Mortgage's average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat LendingTree's score of 0.25 indicating that Federal Agricultural Mortgage is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Federal Agricultural Mortgage	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
LendingTree	1 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	10 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

LendingTree beats Federal Agricultural Mortgage on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.