GROW vs. HNNA, GECC, WHG, BANX, ERES, SHFS, AAME, HFBL, MSVB, and JFU
Should you be buying U.S. Global Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Global Investors include Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), Great Elm Capital (GECC), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), SHF (SHFS), Atlantic American (AAME), Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL), Mid-Southern Bancorp (MSVB), and 9F (JFU). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
U.S. Global Investors (NASDAQ:GROW) and Hennessy Advisors (NASDAQ:HNNA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
U.S. Global Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Hennessy Advisors pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. U.S. Global Investors pays out 39.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hennessy Advisors pays out 87.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, U.S. Global Investors had 8 more articles in the media than Hennessy Advisors. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for U.S. Global Investors and 2 mentions for Hennessy Advisors. Hennessy Advisors' average media sentiment score of 0.54 beat U.S. Global Investors' score of 0.35 indicating that Hennessy Advisors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
U.S. Global Investors has a net margin of 25.04% compared to Hennessy Advisors' net margin of 20.20%. U.S. Global Investors' return on equity of 6.24% beat Hennessy Advisors' return on equity.
Hennessy Advisors has higher revenue and earnings than U.S. Global Investors. Hennessy Advisors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Global Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
U.S. Global Investors has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hennessy Advisors has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
23.6% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of Hennessy Advisors shares are held by institutional investors. 19.2% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 37.8% of Hennessy Advisors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
U.S. Global Investors received 29 more outperform votes than Hennessy Advisors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.72% of users gave Hennessy Advisors an outperform vote while only 43.10% of users gave U.S. Global Investors an outperform vote.
Summary
U.S. Global Investors beats Hennessy Advisors on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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