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NASDAQ:GECC

Great Elm Capital (GECC) Competitors

$7.95
0.00 (0.00%)
(As of 06/2/2023 ET)
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Today's Range
$7.85
$8.03
50-Day Range
$7.86
$9.10
52-Week Range
$7.80
$14.50
Volume
32,943 shs
Average Volume
29,670 shs
Market Capitalization
$36.55 million
P/E Ratio
N/A
Dividend Yield
17.62%
Price Target
$12.00

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.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
U.S. Global InvestorsOutperform Votes
128
50.20%
Underperform Votes
127
49.80%
Great Elm CapitalOutperform Votes
237
65.83%
Underperform Votes
123
34.17%

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.

Company Overall Sentiment
U.S. Global Investors Neutral
Great Elm Capital Neutral

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.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
U.S. Global Investors
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
Great Elm Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
U.S. Global Investors 14.28% 5.65% 5.23%
Great Elm Capital -8.48% 8.03% 2.34%

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
U.S. Global Investors$24.71 million1.64$5.50 million$0.2212.36
Great Elm Capital$24.43 million1.50-$15.58 million-$0.58-13.70

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.
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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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GECC vs. The Competition

MetricGreat Elm CapitalInvestment advice IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$36.56M$6.23B$6.33B$6.27B
Dividend Yield17.61%24.69%7.21%6.38%
P/E Ratio-13.7031.87158.5612.01
Price / Sales1.503.616,421.3699.74
Price / CashN/A25.7533.06105.95
Price / Book0.402.792.386.89
Net Income-$15.58M$266.13M$645.92M$193.40M
7 Day Performance-0.04%2.88%1.52%2.27%
1 Month Performance-1.28%4.96%1.73%5.07%
1 Year Performance-36.38%-4.04%-6.65%1.69%

Great Elm Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GROW
U.S. Global Investors
1.8302 of 5 stars
$2.60
+0.4%
N/A-44.0%$38.74M$24.71M11.8225Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Report
HNNA
Hennessy Advisors
1.9543 of 5 stars
$7.16
+1.6%
N/A-29.4%$54.27M$29.67M10.8518
WHG
Westwood Holdings Group
1.2871 of 5 stars
$12.80
-0.2%
N/A-15.5%$117.04M$74.19M-25.10N/A
ERES
East Resources Acquisition
0 of 5 stars
$10.29
flat
N/AN/A$118.13MN/A0.006Positive News
BANX
ArrowMark Financial
0 of 5 stars
$16.88
+3.7%
N/A-11.9%$120.02M$17.36M31.85N/AUpcoming Earnings
SOHO
Sotherly Hotels
1.664 of 5 stars
$1.82
+11.7%
$2.00
+9.9%
-0.5%$35.14M$166.08M1.2010Analyst Report
High Trading Volume
CWD
CaliberCos
0 of 5 stars
$2.87
-6.2%
N/AN/A$37.88MN/A0.00N/AGap Down
MEGL
Magic Empire Global
0 of 5 stars
1.93
-3.0%
N/AN/A$39.09M$11.20M0.00N/A
RAND
Rand Capital
2.3904 of 5 stars
$13.00
+2.0%
N/A-10.2%$33.54M$5.76M19.704Ex-Dividend
BMTX
BM Technologies
0 of 5 stars
$2.80
+1.8%
$9.33
+233.3%
-53.1%$33.21M$83.60M-3.33310Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:GECC) was last updated on 6/3/2023 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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