GLG vs. SOHO, RAND, GREE, PNBK, CIF, FSEA, AAME, MSVB, MFV, and FRBK
Should you be buying TD stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TD include Sotherly Hotels (SOHO), Rand Capital (RAND), Greenidge Generation (GREE), Patriot National Bancorp (PNBK), MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (CIF), First Seacoast Bancorp (FSEA), Atlantic American (AAME), Mid-Southern Bancorp (MSVB), MFS Special Value Trust (MFV), and Republic First Bancorp (FRBK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
TD vs.
Sotherly Hotels (NASDAQ:SOHO) and TD (NASDAQ:GLG) 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.
Sotherly Hotels has a beta of 1.72, suggesting that its stock price is 72% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TD has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sotherly Hotels has higher revenue and earnings than TD.
Sotherly Hotels has a net margin of 7.89% compared to Sotherly Hotels' net margin of -1.59%. TD's return on equity of 27.16% beat Sotherly Hotels' return on equity.
Sotherly Hotels received 102 more outperform votes than TD when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.41% of users gave TD an outperform vote while only 46.54% of users gave Sotherly Hotels an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Sotherly Hotels had 2 more articles in the media than TD. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Sotherly Hotels and 0 mentions for TD. TD's average media sentiment score of -0.16 beat Sotherly Hotels' score of -1.00 indicating that Sotherly Hotels is being referred to more favorably in the media.
26.1% of Sotherly Hotels shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.2% of TD shares are held by institutional investors. 15.9% of Sotherly Hotels shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 39.8% of TD shares are held by 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.
Sotherly Hotels currently has a consensus price target of $2.25, indicating a potential upside of 29.31%. Given TD's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Sotherly Hotels is more favorable than TD.
Summary
Sotherly Hotels beats TD on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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