GECC vs. WHG, BANX, ERES, HNNA, GROW, SAMG, SAR, VALU, NMT, and SWZ
Should you be buying Great Elm Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Elm Capital include Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), U.S. Global Investors (GROW), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), Saratoga Investment (SAR), Value Line (VALU), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), and The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Westwood Holdings Group (NYSE:WHG) and Great Elm Capital (NASDAQ:GECC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
56.6% of Westwood Holdings Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of Great Elm Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 10.1% of Westwood Holdings Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Great Elm Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Westwood Holdings Group has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Elm Capital has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Westwood Holdings Group and Westwood Holdings Group both had 2 articles in the media. Westwood Holdings Group's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Great Elm Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Great Elm Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Westwood Holdings Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Great Elm Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. Westwood Holdings Group pays out 50.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Great Elm Capital pays out 42.2% 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 has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Great Elm Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Great Elm Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Westwood Holdings Group. Great Elm Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westwood Holdings Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Great Elm Capital has a net margin of 70.71% compared to Great Elm Capital's net margin of 11.77%. Westwood Holdings Group's return on equity of 13.21% beat Great Elm Capital's return on equity.
Great Elm Capital received 21 more outperform votes than Westwood Holdings Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.71% of users gave Westwood Holdings Group an outperform vote while only 65.65% of users gave Great Elm Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Great Elm Capital beats Westwood Holdings Group on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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