Critical Contrast: ATIF (ZBAI) and Its Competitors

ATIF (NASDAQ:ZBAI) is one of 20 publicly-traded companies in the “Consulting” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare ATIF to related companies based on the strength of its valuation, earnings, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk and analyst recommendations.

Risk & Volatility

ATIF has a beta of -0.64, meaning that its share price is 164% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ATIF’s peers have a beta of 0.72, meaning that their average share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares ATIF and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ATIF	N/A	-90.49%	-79.46%
ATIF Competitors	7.66%	26.66%	8.47%

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares ATIF and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
ATIF	$620,000.00	-$3.19 million	-1.18
ATIF Competitors	$2.97 billion	$272.15 million	19.42

ATIF’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than ATIF. ATIF is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations for ATIF and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ATIF	1	0	0	0	1.00
ATIF Competitors	85	729	1302	63	2.62

As a group, “Consulting” companies have a potential upside of 24.15%. Given ATIF’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe ATIF has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

85.1% of shares of all “Consulting” companies are held by institutional investors. 32.2% of ATIF shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of shares of all “Consulting” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

ATIF peers beat ATIF on 12 of the 13 factors compared.

About ATIF

ATIF Holdings Ltd. engages in the provision of financial consulting services. It is also involved in merger and acquisition business advisory, post-listing compliance, management support, and related services. The company was founded on January 5, 2015 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, CA.