ECPG Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Encore Capital Group | NASDAQ:ECPG)

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 purchases portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables at deep discounts to face value and manages them by working with individuals as the consumers repay their obligations and work toward financial recovery. Encore has only a reportable segment portfolio purchasing and recovery.

Encore Capital Group trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol ECPG.

As of February 17, 2026, ECPG stock price climbed to $57.58 with 41,868 million shares trading.

ECPG has a beta of 0.83, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. ECPG has a correlation of 0.10 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ECPG has a market cap of $1.34 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Encore Capital Group reported $460 million in Revenue and $3.17 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $49 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $1.45.

In the last 3 years, ECPG traded as high as $59.20 and as low as $26.45.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that ECPG belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, IWM, VB, VBR.

ECPG has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +15.7% while the SPY ETF gained +12.8%. ECPG has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +17.9% and +4.3%, respectively, while the SPY returned +1.5% and -1.7%, respectively.

ECPG support price is $56.28 and resistance is $58.66 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that ECPG shares will trade within this expected range on the day.