ECC vs. ERO, CGBD, TWN, BPRN, MDXH, MAC, ASB, WD, MCY, and GRP.U
Should you be buying Eagle Point Credit stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eagle Point Credit include Ero Copper (ERO), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), The Taiwan Fund (TWN), Princeton Bancorp (BPRN), MDxHealth (MDXH), Macerich (MAC), Associated Banc (ASB), Walker & Dunlop (WD), Mercury General (MCY), and Granite Real Estate Inc. Staple (GRP.U).
Ero Copper (NYSE:ERO) and Eagle Point Credit (NYSE:ECC) are both basic materials companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
Eagle Point Credit has a net margin of 88.90% compared to Eagle Point Credit's net margin of 14.23%. Ero Copper's return on equity of 14.21% beat Eagle Point Credit's return on equity.
Ero Copper has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Point Credit has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Ero Copper had 15 more articles in the media than Eagle Point Credit. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Ero Copper and 2 mentions for Eagle Point Credit. Ero Copper's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Eagle Point Credit's score of 0.53 indicating that Eagle Point Credit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
71.3% of Ero Copper shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.5% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Point Credit received 279 more outperform votes than Ero Copper when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.86% of users gave Eagle Point Credit an outperform vote while only 17.39% of users gave Ero Copper an outperform vote.
Eagle Point Credit has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Ero Copper. Eagle Point Credit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ero Copper, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ero Copper presently has a consensus price target of $24.00, suggesting a potential upside of 12.68%. Eagle Point Credit has a consensus price target of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.95%. Given Eagle Point Credit's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Ero Copper is more favorable than Eagle Point Credit.
Summary
Eagle Point Credit beats Ero Copper on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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