Head-To-Head Analysis: Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (FCMGF) and Its Peers

Firm Capital Mortgage Investment (OTCMKTS:FCMGF) is one of 345 publicly-traded companies in the “Financial Services” industry, but how does it contrast to its competitors? We will compare Firm Capital Mortgage Investment to related businesses based on the strength of its dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and risk.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

0.3% of Firm Capital Mortgage Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 21.8% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Firm Capital Mortgage Investment and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment	0	1	0	0	2.00
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Competitors	1891	6807	11500	414	2.51

As a group, “Financial Services” companies have a potential upside of 4.09%. Given Firm Capital Mortgage Investment’s competitors stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Firm Capital Mortgage Investment has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Dividends

Firm Capital Mortgage Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.94 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Firm Capital Mortgage Investment pays out 117.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. As a group, “Financial Services” companies pay a dividend yield of 4.0% and pay out -102.4% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Firm Capital Mortgage Investment and its competitors revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment	N/A	N/A	10.58
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Competitors	$24.20 billion	$1.07 billion	10.49

Firm Capital Mortgage Investment’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Firm Capital Mortgage Investment. Firm Capital Mortgage Investment is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Profitability

This table compares Firm Capital Mortgage Investment and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment	N/A	N/A	N/A
Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Competitors	-405.59%	-21.92%	-5.67%

Summary

Firm Capital Mortgage Investment competitors beat Firm Capital Mortgage Investment on 8 of the 13 factors compared.

About Firm Capital Mortgage Investment

Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Corporation, through its mortgage banker, Firm Capital Corporation, invests in short-term residential and commercial real estate mortgage loans and real estate related debt investments in Canada. It engages in originating, funding, purchasing, and servicing mortgage investments. The company also offers mortgage services, such as real estate financing, real estate investment financing, capital market, and loan servicing and advisory services; and a line of lending programs, including construction and development lending, investment property financing, short term lending, bridge finance, mezzanine and equity investments, capital market facilities, alternative residential lending program, and infill construction lending program. Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Corporation was founded in 1988 and is based in Toronto, Canada.