FDUS vs. DHIL, VRTS, VINP, ALTI, ABL, NOAH, BRDG, BSIG, VALU, and SAR
Should you be buying Fidus Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidus Investment include Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), AlTi Global (ALTI), Abacus Life (ABL), Noah (NOAH), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Value Line (VALU), and Saratoga Investment (SAR). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL) and Fidus Investment (NASDAQ:FDUS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, profitability, valuation and risk.
65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.1% of Fidus Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Fidus Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Fidus Investment has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.91%. Given Diamond Hill Investment Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fidus Investment is more favorable than Diamond Hill Investment Group.
Fidus Investment received 79 more outperform votes than Diamond Hill Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.69% of users gave Diamond Hill Investment Group an outperform vote while only 61.11% of users gave Fidus Investment an outperform vote.
Fidus Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Diamond Hill Investment Group. Fidus Investment 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.
Fidus Investment has a net margin of 59.28% compared to Fidus Investment's net margin of 30.89%. Fidus Investment's return on equity of 18.46% beat Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Diamond Hill Investment Group and Diamond Hill Investment Group both had 3 articles in the media. Diamond Hill Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Fidus Investment's score of 0.42 indicating that Fidus Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diamond Hill Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Fidus Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays out 41.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidus Investment pays out 59.7% 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.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidus Investment has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Diamond Hill Investment Group beats Fidus Investment on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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