DHIL vs. PSEC, OCSL, VRTS, CSWC, SLRC, FDUS, TCPC, GLAD, GAIN, and PNNT
Should you be buying Diamond Hill Investment Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diamond Hill Investment Group include Prospect Capital (PSEC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Capital Southwest (CSWC), SLR Investment (SLRC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), and PennantPark Investment (PNNT). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Diamond Hill Investment Group vs. Its Competitors
Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) and Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Prospect Capital had 8 more articles in the media than Diamond Hill Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Prospect Capital and 1 mentions for Diamond Hill Investment Group. Diamond Hill Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.91 beat Prospect Capital's score of 0.52 indicating that Diamond Hill Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Prospect Capital received 110 more outperform votes than Diamond Hill Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.91% of users gave Diamond Hill Investment Group an outperform vote while only 51.45% of users gave Prospect Capital an outperform vote.
9.1% of Prospect Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 28.3% of Prospect Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.6% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Prospect Capital currently has a consensus target price of $3.00, indicating a potential downside of 10.98%. Given Prospect Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Prospect Capital is more favorable than Diamond Hill Investment Group.
Prospect Capital has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has a net margin of 33.88% compared to Prospect Capital's net margin of 1.18%. Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity of 20.00% beat Prospect Capital's return on equity.
Prospect Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Diamond Hill Investment Group. Prospect Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diamond Hill Investment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prospect Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.0%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Prospect Capital pays out -62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays out 40.6% 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. Prospect Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Diamond Hill Investment Group beats Prospect Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DHIL) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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