ATIF (ZBAI) & Its Competitors Head-To-Head Survey

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 similar businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.

Earnings and Valuation

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
ATIF	$620,000.00	-$3.19 million	-1.24
ATIF Competitors	$3.19 billion	$272.15 million	20.43

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 Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings 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	88	730	1305	63	2.61

As a group, “Consulting” companies have a potential upside of 25.68%. Given ATIF’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly 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%

Insider & 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, 5.6% 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 company will outperform the market over the long term.

Risk and Volatility

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.