EARN vs. PAX, PLYM, NOAH, ABL, TRTX, ORC, AACT, APPS, TINV, and GAMI
Should you be buying Ellington Credit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ellington Credit include Patria Investments (PAX), Plymouth Industrial REIT (PLYM), Noah (NOAH), Abacus Life (ABL), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT), Digital Turbine (APPS), Tiga Acquisition (TINV), and GAMCO Investors (GAMI). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Ellington Credit vs.
Ellington Credit (NYSE:EARN) and Patria Investments (NYSE:PAX) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, risk, media sentiment, dividends and profitability.
Patria Investments has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.96%. Given Patria Investments' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Patria Investments is more favorable than Ellington Credit.
Ellington Credit received 157 more outperform votes than Patria Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.00% of users gave Patria Investments an outperform vote while only 51.04% of users gave Ellington Credit an outperform vote.
Ellington Credit has a net margin of 226.01% compared to Patria Investments' net margin of 19.91%. Patria Investments' return on equity of 38.68% beat Ellington Credit's return on equity.
20.4% of Ellington Credit shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 96.3% of Patria Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of Ellington Credit shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 58.1% of Patria Investments shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Patria Investments had 1 more articles in the media than Ellington Credit. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Patria Investments and 1 mentions for Ellington Credit. Ellington Credit's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Patria Investments' score of 0.33 indicating that Ellington Credit is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ellington Credit pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.7%. Patria Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Ellington Credit pays out 85.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Patria Investments pays out 120.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ellington Credit is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ellington Credit has a beta of 1.85, meaning that its stock price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Patria Investments has a beta of 0.58, meaning that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Patria Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Ellington Credit. Ellington Credit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Patria Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Patria Investments beats Ellington Credit on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:EARN) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
