BRDG vs. BSIG, NOAH, BBDC, ABL, PAX, FDUS, VINP, ALTI, DHIL, and VALU
Should you be buying Bridge Investment Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bridge Investment Group include BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Noah (NOAH), Barings BDC (BBDC), Abacus Life (ABL), Patria Investments (PAX), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), AlTi Global (ALTI), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), and Value Line (VALU). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Bridge Investment Group (NYSE:BRDG) and BrightSphere Investment Group (NYSE:BSIG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment and risk.
BrightSphere Investment Group has a net margin of 15.53% compared to Bridge Investment Group's net margin of 0.25%. BrightSphere Investment Group's return on equity of 438.16% beat Bridge Investment Group's return on equity.
Bridge Investment Group presently has a consensus target price of $10.67, suggesting a potential upside of 36.49%. BrightSphere Investment Group has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.86%. Given Bridge Investment Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Bridge Investment Group is more favorable than BrightSphere Investment Group.
Bridge Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. BrightSphere Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. Bridge Investment Group pays out -116.7% 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. Bridge Investment Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
52.8% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 98.7% of BrightSphere Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 73.0% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 24.9% of BrightSphere Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bridge Investment Group has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BrightSphere Investment Group has a beta of 1.47, indicating that its share price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bridge Investment Group had 2 more articles in the media than BrightSphere Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Bridge Investment Group and 1 mentions for BrightSphere Investment Group. Bridge Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat BrightSphere Investment Group's score of 1.38 indicating that Bridge Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BrightSphere Investment Group has higher revenue and earnings than Bridge Investment Group. Bridge Investment Group 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.
BrightSphere Investment Group received 123 more outperform votes than Bridge Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.46% of users gave Bridge Investment Group an outperform vote while only 55.71% of users gave BrightSphere Investment Group an outperform vote.
Summary
Bridge Investment Group beats BrightSphere Investment Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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