Analyzing ATIF (ZBAI) & Its Competitors

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

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 company insiders. Comparatively, 5.6% of shares of all “Consulting” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares ATIF and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
ATIF	$620,000.00	-$3.19 million	-1.13
ATIF Competitors	$3.19 billion	$272.15 million	23.96

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 reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ATIF	1	0	0	0	1.00
ATIF Competitors	90	734	1309	64	2.61

As a group, “Consulting” companies have a potential upside of 24.92%. Given ATIF’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe ATIF has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

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	7.61%	26.73%	8.45%

Volatility & Risk

ATIF has a beta of -0.6, suggesting that its share price is 160% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ATIF’s peers have a beta of 0.71, suggesting that their average share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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.