GECC vs. VALU, DHIL, SAR, SAMG, BANX, WHG, ERES, HNNA, GROW, and PHCF
Should you be buying Great Elm Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Elm Capital include Value Line (VALU), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Saratoga Investment (SAR), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), U.S. Global Investors (GROW), and Puhui Wealth Investment Management (PHCF). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) and Great Elm Capital (NASDAQ:GECC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Great Elm Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Value Line pays out 61.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Great Elm Capital pays out 63.6% 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. Value Line has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years.
Value Line has a net margin of 47.81% compared to Value Line's net margin of 46.02%. Great Elm Capital's return on equity of 21.23% beat Value Line's return on equity.
Great Elm Capital received 61 more outperform votes than Value Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.65% of users gave Great Elm Capital an outperform vote while only 57.33% of users gave Value Line an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Value Line had 16 more articles in the media than Great Elm Capital. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Value Line and 3 mentions for Great Elm Capital. Value Line's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Great Elm Capital's score of 0.40 indicating that Great Elm Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Great Elm Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Value Line. Great Elm Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Value Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
6.3% of Value Line shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of Great Elm Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Value Line shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Great Elm Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Value Line has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Elm Capital has a beta of 1.6, suggesting that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Value Line and Great Elm Capital tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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