AC vs. VINP, GAMI, TIGR, DHIL, EFC, OPY, WT, NAVI, AMAL, and PFLT
Should you be buying Associated Capital Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Associated Capital Group include Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), UP Fintech (TIGR), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Ellington Financial (EFC), Oppenheimer (OPY), WisdomTree (WT), Navient (NAVI), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Vinci Partners Investments (NASDAQ:VINP) and Associated Capital Group (NYSE:AC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
34.1% of Vinci Partners Investments shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.1% of Associated Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 49.3% of Vinci Partners Investments shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 85.6% of Associated Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Associated Capital Group had 6 more articles in the media than Vinci Partners Investments. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Associated Capital Group and 1 mentions for Vinci Partners Investments. Associated Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Vinci Partners Investments' score of -0.23 indicating that Vinci Partners Investments is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Vinci Partners Investments currently has a consensus target price of $14.67, indicating a potential upside of 33.94%. Associated Capital Group has a consensus target price of $27.50, indicating a potential downside of 14.94%. Given Associated Capital Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Vinci Partners Investments is more favorable than Associated Capital Group.
Associated Capital Group has a net margin of 295.29% compared to Associated Capital Group's net margin of 48.49%. Associated Capital Group's return on equity of 18.79% beat Vinci Partners Investments' return on equity.
Vinci Partners Investments has a beta of 0.07, suggesting that its stock price is 93% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Associated Capital Group has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Vinci Partners Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Associated Capital Group. Vinci Partners Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Associated Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Associated Capital Group received 107 more outperform votes than Vinci Partners Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.00% of users gave Vinci Partners Investments an outperform vote while only 53.65% of users gave Associated Capital Group an outperform vote.
Vinci Partners Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Associated Capital Group pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Vinci Partners Investments pays out 105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Associated Capital Group pays out 11.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Vinci Partners Investments has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Vinci Partners Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Vinci Partners Investments beats Associated Capital Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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