Encore Capital Group (ECPG)

• Market cap: $1.18B
• 1 day: -0.58%
• 5 days: -0.76%
• 1 month: 0.87%
• 3 months: 3.50%
• 6 months: 1.06%
• Year to date: 5.79%
• 1 year: -6.93%
• 5 years: 44.96%
• 10 years: 15.25%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: Short-term Business Credit Institutions

About: Encore Capital Group Inc is an international specialty finance company. It provides debt recovery solutions for consumers and property owners across a broad range of financial assets. The company purchase portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables at deep discounts to face value and manages them by working with individuals as the consumer repay their obligations and work toward financial recovery. Encore has only a reportable segment being portfolio purchasing and recovery.

Employees: 7,400

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

4,409% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $84.5M | Put options by funds: $1.87M

155% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 28 | Existing positions closed: 11

9% more funds holding

Funds holding: 176 [Q3] → 191 (+15) [Q4]

2.42% more ownership

Funds ownership: 109.09% [Q3] → 111.51% (+2.42%) [Q4]

3% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $1.22B [Q3] → $1.26B (+$40.6M) [Q4]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 2 [Q3] → 2 (+0) [Q4]

3% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 63 | Existing positions reduced: 65

Research analyst outlook

1 Wall Street Analyst provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $66 33% upside
• Avg. target: $66 33% upside
• High target: $66 33% upside

1 analyst rating

• positive: 1 100%
• neutral: 0 0%
• negative: 0 0%

Northland Capital Markets Mike Grondahl 57% 1-year accuracy 25 / 44 met price target

33% upside $66

Outperform Maintained

23 Dec 2024