TRIN vs. CION, OBDE, MSDL, HUT, LDI, HPP, FIP, PFC, CNOB, and PFLT
Should you be buying Trinity Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trinity Capital include CION Investment (CION), Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL), Hut 8 (HUT), loanDepot (LDI), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), Premier Financial (PFC), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
CION Investment (NYSE:CION) and Trinity Capital (NASDAQ:TRIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends and community ranking.
CION Investment has a net margin of 51.16% compared to CION Investment's net margin of 36.12%. CION Investment's return on equity of 16.73% beat Trinity Capital's return on equity.
CION Investment presently has a consensus price target of $11.13, suggesting a potential downside of 8.13%. Trinity Capital has a consensus price target of $15.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.17%. Given CION Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Trinity Capital is more favorable than CION Investment.
CION Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Trinity Capital. CION Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trinity Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trinity Capital received 49 more outperform votes than CION Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.79% of users gave Trinity Capital an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave CION Investment an outperform vote.
32.0% of CION Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.6% of Trinity Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of CION Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Trinity Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CION Investment has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trinity Capital has a beta of 0.6, suggesting that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, CION Investment had 7 more articles in the media than Trinity Capital. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for CION Investment and 8 mentions for Trinity Capital. Trinity Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat CION Investment's score of -0.16 indicating that CION Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CION Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. Trinity Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. CION Investment pays out 55.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trinity Capital pays out 126.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CION Investment has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Trinity Capital has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
Trinity Capital beats CION Investment on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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