GECC vs. GROW, HNNA, WHG, ERES, BANX, SOHO, CWD, MEGL, RAND, and BMTX
Should you be buying Great Elm Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Elm Capital include U.S. Global Investors (GROW), Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), CaliberCos (CWD), Magic Empire Global (MEGL), Rand Capital (RAND), and BM Technologies (BMTX). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Great Elm Capital vs.
U.S. Global Investors (NASDAQ:GROW) and Great Elm Capital (NASDAQ:GECC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings and risk.
Great Elm Capital received 109 more outperform votes than U.S. Global Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.83% of users gave Great Elm Capital an outperform vote while only 50.20% of users gave U.S. Global Investors an outperform vote.
In the previous week, U.S. Global Investors had 4 more articles in the media than Great Elm Capital. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for U.S. Global Investors and 0 mentions for Great Elm Capital. U.S. Global Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.12 beat Great Elm Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that U.S. Global Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Great Elm Capital has a consensus price target of $12.00, indicating a potential upside of 51.01%. Given Great Elm Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Great Elm Capital is more favorable than U.S. Global Investors.
U.S. Global Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Great Elm Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.6%. U.S. Global Investors pays out 40.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Great Elm Capital pays out -241.4% 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. Great Elm Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
U.S. Global Investors has a net margin of 14.28% compared to Great Elm Capital's net margin of -8.48%. Great Elm Capital's return on equity of 8.03% beat U.S. Global Investors' return on equity.
U.S. Global Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Great Elm Capital. Great Elm Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Global Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
27.4% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.9% of Great Elm Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 19.2% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.0% of Great Elm Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
U.S. Global Investors has a beta of 1.99, indicating that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Elm Capital has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
U.S. Global Investors beats Great Elm Capital on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding GECC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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