ATIF (ZBAI) and The Competition Critical Survey

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

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
ATIF	$620,000.00	-$3.19 million	-1.22
ATIF Competitors	$2.98 billion	$272.15 million	19.33

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 current ratings and price targets 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	77	714	1287	63	2.62

As a group, “Consulting” companies have a potential upside of 30.05%. Given ATIF’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe ATIF has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Risk and Volatility

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

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

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	7.75%	26.60%	8.48%

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.