VRTS vs. BSIG, SCU, PZN, AMK, PJT, AMG, MAIN, CNS, GBDC, and PSEC
Should you be buying Virtus Investment Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virtus Investment Partners include BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Sculptor Capital Management (SCU), Pzena Investment Management (PZN), AssetMark Financial (AMK), PJT Partners (PJT), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), and Prospect Capital (PSEC).
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) and BrightSphere Investment Group (NYSE:BSIG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and media sentiment.
Virtus Investment Partners received 167 more outperform votes than BrightSphere Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 55.71% of users gave BrightSphere Investment Group an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Virtus Investment Partners an outperform vote.
Virtus Investment Partners currently has a consensus price target of $247.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.30%. BrightSphere Investment Group has a consensus price target of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 4.74%. Given Virtus Investment Partners' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Virtus Investment Partners is more favorable than BrightSphere Investment Group.
80.5% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.7% of BrightSphere Investment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 27.7% of BrightSphere Investment Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Virtus Investment Partners and Virtus Investment Partners both had 1 articles in the media. BrightSphere Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Virtus Investment Partners' score of 0.60 indicating that BrightSphere Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Virtus Investment Partners has higher revenue and earnings than BrightSphere Investment Group. Virtus Investment Partners is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BrightSphere Investment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Virtus Investment Partners pays an annual dividend of $7.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. BrightSphere Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Virtus Investment Partners pays out 45.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BrightSphere Investment Group pays out 2.4% 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.
Virtus Investment Partners has a beta of 1.45, indicating that its share price is 45% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrightSphere Investment Group has a beta of 1.46, indicating that its share price is 46% more volatile than the S&P 500.
BrightSphere Investment Group has a net margin of 15.53% compared to Virtus Investment Partners' net margin of 14.02%. BrightSphere Investment Group's return on equity of 438.16% beat Virtus Investment Partners' return on equity.
Summary
BrightSphere Investment Group beats Virtus Investment Partners on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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