HNNA vs. GROW, GECC, WHG, BANX, ERES, NSTS, BAFN, ICCH, ASPS, and AHT
Should you be buying Hennessy Advisors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hennessy Advisors include U.S. Global Investors (GROW), Great Elm Capital (GECC), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), NSTS Bancorp (NSTS), BayFirst Financial (BAFN), ICC (ICCH), Altisource Portfolio Solutions (ASPS), and Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Hennessy Advisors (NASDAQ:HNNA) and U.S. Global Investors (NASDAQ:GROW) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
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 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 42.95% of users gave U.S. Global Investors an outperform vote.
Hennessy Advisors has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Global Investors has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its share price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hennessy Advisors pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. U.S. Global Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Hennessy Advisors pays out 80.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. U.S. Global Investors pays out 75.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
10.3% of Hennessy Advisors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.6% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 37.8% of Hennessy Advisors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hennessy Advisors has a net margin of 20.75% compared to U.S. Global Investors' net margin of 13.08%. Hennessy Advisors' return on equity of 5.90% beat U.S. Global Investors' return on equity.
In the previous week, U.S. Global Investors had 3 more articles in the media than Hennessy Advisors. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for U.S. Global Investors and 6 mentions for Hennessy Advisors. Hennessy Advisors' average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat U.S. Global Investors' score of 0.27 indicating that Hennessy Advisors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Hennessy Advisors beats U.S. Global Investors on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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