MFIN vs. FDUS, GAIN, GLAD, PNNT, DHIL, HRZN, SCM, WHF, OFS, and WHG
Should you be buying Medallion Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Medallion Financial include Fidus Investment (FDUS), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), WhiteHorse Finance (WHF), OFS Capital (OFS), and Westwood Holdings Group (WHG). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Medallion Financial (NASDAQ:MFIN) and Fidus Investment (NASDAQ:FDUS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
Medallion Financial has a beta of 2.08, meaning that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidus Investment has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fidus Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Medallion Financial. Medallion Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fidus Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Medallion Financial pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Fidus Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Medallion Financial pays out 18.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidus Investment pays out 59.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
Fidus Investment has a net margin of 60.25% compared to Medallion Financial's net margin of 17.96%. Fidus Investment's return on equity of 12.69% beat Medallion Financial's return on equity.
40.6% of Medallion Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.1% of Fidus Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 22.4% of Medallion Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Fidus Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fidus Investment received 30 more outperform votes than Medallion Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.11% of users gave Fidus Investment an outperform vote while only 60.66% of users gave Medallion Financial an outperform vote.
Medallion Financial presently has a consensus price target of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 43.88%. Fidus Investment has a consensus price target of $22.00, suggesting a potential upside of 10.50%. Given Medallion Financial's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Medallion Financial is more favorable than Fidus Investment.
In the previous week, Medallion Financial had 2 more articles in the media than Fidus Investment. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Medallion Financial and 4 mentions for Fidus Investment. Fidus Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Medallion Financial's score of 0.62 indicating that Fidus Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fidus Investment beats Medallion Financial on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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