CODI vs. STC, MBIN, RLJ, LOB, GSBD, CLBK, ENVA, NUV, IVT, and GCMG
Should you be buying Compass Diversified stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Compass Diversified include Stewart Information Services (STC), Merchants Bancorp (MBIN), RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ), Live Oak Bancshares (LOB), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Enova International (ENVA), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), InvenTrust Properties (IVT), and GCM Grosvenor (GCMG). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Stewart Information Services (NYSE:STC) and Compass Diversified (NYSE:CODI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations and valuation.
In the previous week, Stewart Information Services had 12 more articles in the media than Compass Diversified. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Stewart Information Services and 3 mentions for Compass Diversified. Stewart Information Services' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Compass Diversified's score of 0.45 indicating that Compass Diversified is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
96.9% of Stewart Information Services shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.7% of Compass Diversified shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.5% of Stewart Information Services shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.4% of Compass Diversified shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Compass Diversified has a net margin of 9.43% compared to Compass Diversified's net margin of 1.83%. Stewart Information Services' return on equity of 11.93% beat Compass Diversified's return on equity.
Stewart Information Services presently has a consensus target price of $69.33, indicating a potential upside of 11.02%. Compass Diversified has a consensus target price of $26.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.15%. Given Stewart Information Services' higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Compass Diversified is more favorable than Stewart Information Services.
Compass Diversified received 152 more outperform votes than Stewart Information Services when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.26% of users gave Compass Diversified an outperform vote while only 52.34% of users gave Stewart Information Services an outperform vote.
Stewart Information Services pays an annual dividend of $1.90 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Compass Diversified pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. Stewart Information Services pays out 125.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Compass Diversified pays out 43.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Stewart Information Services has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Compass Diversified is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Stewart Information Services has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its share price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Compass Diversified has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its share price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Compass Diversified has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stewart Information Services. Compass Diversified is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stewart Information Services, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Compass Diversified beats Stewart Information Services on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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