EARN vs. AC, BRSP, KREF, AACT, TRTX, PAX, NOAH, FSNB, ORC, and ABL
Should you be buying Ellington Credit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ellington Credit include Associated Capital Group (AC), BrightSpire Capital (BRSP), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT), TPG RE Finance Trust (TRTX), Patria Investments (PAX), Noah (NOAH), Fusion Acquisition Corp. II (FSNB), Orchid Island Capital (ORC), and Abacus Life (ABL). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Ellington Credit vs.
Associated Capital Group (NYSE:AC) and Ellington Credit (NYSE:EARN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk and community ranking.
Associated Capital Group has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ellington Credit has a beta of 1.86, indicating that its stock price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Associated Capital Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Ellington Credit. Ellington Credit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Associated Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ellington Credit received 44 more outperform votes than Associated Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 53.36% of users gave Associated Capital Group an outperform vote while only 51.04% of users gave Ellington Credit an outperform vote.
8.1% of Associated Capital Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.4% of Ellington Credit shares are owned by institutional investors. 87.6% of Associated Capital Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.6% of Ellington Credit shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Associated Capital Group and Associated Capital Group both had 2 articles in the media. Ellington Credit's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Associated Capital Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Ellington Credit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Associated Capital Group pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Ellington Credit pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.5%. Associated Capital Group pays out 7.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Associated Capital Group has a net margin of 412.90% compared to Ellington Credit's net margin of 226.01%. Ellington Credit's return on equity of 15.81% beat Associated Capital Group's return on equity.
Summary
Associated Capital Group beats Ellington Credit on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:EARN) was last updated on 1/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff