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$10.22 -0.03 (-0.29%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

GDOT vs. ECPG, PRAA, WRLD, EZPW, RM, AXP, COF, DFS, CACC, and SLM

Should you be buying Green Dot stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Green Dot include Encore Capital Group (ECPG), PRA Group (PRAA), World Acceptance (WRLD), EZCORP (EZPW), Regional Management (RM), American Express (AXP), Capital One Financial (COF), Discover Financial Services (DFS), Credit Acceptance (CACC), and SLM (SLM). These companies are all part of the "consumer finance" industry.

Green Dot vs.

Green Dot (NYSE:GDOT) and Encore Capital Group (NASDAQ:ECPG) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.

92.6% of Green Dot shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.1% of Green Dot shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Encore Capital Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Green Dot currently has a consensus price target of $10.75, suggesting a potential upside of 5.13%. Encore Capital Group has a consensus price target of $62.33, suggesting a potential upside of 26.85%. Given Encore Capital Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Encore Capital Group is more favorable than Green Dot.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Green Dot
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Encore Capital Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.25

Green Dot has higher revenue and earnings than Encore Capital Group. Green Dot is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Encore Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Green Dot$1.50B0.37$6.72M-$1.05-9.74
Encore Capital Group$1.33B0.88-$206.49M-$7.85-6.26

Green Dot received 264 more outperform votes than Encore Capital Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.00% of users gave Encore Capital Group an outperform vote while only 59.80% of users gave Green Dot an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Green DotOutperform Votes
592
59.80%
Underperform Votes
398
40.20%
Encore Capital GroupOutperform Votes
328
62.00%
Underperform Votes
201
38.00%

Green Dot has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Encore Capital Group has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Encore Capital Group had 2 more articles in the media than Green Dot. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Encore Capital Group and 2 mentions for Green Dot. Green Dot's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Encore Capital Group's score of 0.46 indicating that Green Dot is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Green Dot
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Encore Capital Group
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Green Dot has a net margin of -3.39% compared to Encore Capital Group's net margin of -13.91%. Encore Capital Group's return on equity of 12.70% beat Green Dot's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Green Dot-3.39% 3.84% 0.65%
Encore Capital Group -13.91%12.70%2.61%

Summary

Encore Capital Group beats Green Dot on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GDOT vs. The Competition

MetricGreen DotNondepository credit institutions IndustryBusiness SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$550.00M$8.14B$6.99B$20.15B
Dividend YieldN/A5.16%2.86%3.50%
P/E Ratio-9.7417.4629.6244.55
Price / Sales0.3714.52582.5817.75
Price / Cash4.1054.6326.6921.28
Price / Book0.592.975.114.71
Net Income$6.72M$456.92M$124.16M$986.85M
7 Day Performance-8.13%4.07%7.00%3.76%
1 Month Performance-12.31%31.09%16.04%4.65%
1 Year Performance22.31%124.18%34.59%27.72%

Green Dot Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GDOT
Green Dot
2.2245 of 5 stars
$10.23
-0.3%
$10.75
+5.1%
+22.4%$550.00M$1.50B-9.741,200Positive News
ECPG
Encore Capital Group
3.5312 of 5 stars
$48.40
+1.7%
$62.33
+28.8%
+11.7%$1.13B$1.33B-6.177,400Analyst Downgrade
PRAA
PRA Group
4.4014 of 5 stars
$20.84
-0.4%
$32.00
+53.6%
+20.6%$821.72M$802.55M18.953,155
WRLD
World Acceptance
2.0202 of 5 stars
$117.57
+0.8%
$10.00
-91.5%
+6.6%$676.03M$573.21M7.992,872News Coverage
Positive News
EZPW
EZCORP
3.9506 of 5 stars
$12.09
flat
$16.00
+32.3%
+52.2%$661.81M$1.16B10.848,000
RM
Regional Management
4.0691 of 5 stars
$29.93
+1.9%
$35.50
+18.6%
+38.0%$304.09M$551.40M12.582,081
AXP
American Express
4.725 of 5 stars
$293.27
+1.9%
$253.09
-13.7%
+83.9%$206.59B$60.52B21.5874,600Positive News
COF
Capital One Financial
4.5285 of 5 stars
$182.75
+1.1%
$160.18
-12.3%
+75.2%$69.72B$49.48B17.2651,987Analyst Forecast
Positive News
DFS
Discover Financial Services
4.0286 of 5 stars
$175.01
+1.7%
$138.81
-20.7%
+107.1%$43.94B$20.61B14.1221,100
CACC
Credit Acceptance
3.1621 of 5 stars
$460.02
+2.8%
$416.00
-9.6%
+9.5%$5.57B$1.90B31.032,232Positive News
High Trading Volume
SLM
SLM
4.5767 of 5 stars
$24.86
+3.7%
$25.45
+2.4%
+88.9%$5.28B$2.84B8.661,740

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This page (NYSE:GDOT) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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