VALU vs. DHIL, MN, SAMG, PUYI, PZN, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, MKTW, and TRI
Should you be buying Value Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Value Line include Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Manning & Napier (MN), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), Highest Performances (PUYI), Pzena Investment Management (PZN), Shutterstock (SSTK), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal (DJCO), MarketWise (MKTW), and Thomson Reuters (TRI).
Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL) and Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Value Line has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Diamond Hill Investment Group had 5 more articles in the media than Value Line. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Diamond Hill Investment Group and 2 mentions for Value Line. Value Line's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat Diamond Hill Investment Group's score of 1.38 indicating that Diamond Hill Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Diamond Hill Investment Group received 31 more outperform votes than Value Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.69% of users gave Diamond Hill Investment Group an outperform vote while only 58.47% of users gave Value Line an outperform vote.
Diamond Hill Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays out 40.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Value Line pays out 61.9% 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. Value Line has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Diamond Hill Investment Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of Value Line shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Value Line shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has higher revenue and earnings than Value Line. Diamond Hill Investment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Value Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Value Line has a net margin of 47.81% compared to Value Line's net margin of 30.60%. Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity of 21.23% beat Value Line's return on equity.
Summary
Diamond Hill Investment Group beats Value Line on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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