HNNA vs. GROW, GECC, WHG, ERES, BANX, MRCC, CFSB, DUNE, ICMB, and JMM
Should you be buying Hennessy Advisors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hennessy Advisors include U.S. Global Investors (GROW), Great Elm Capital (GECC), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), Monroe Capital (MRCC), CFSB Bancorp (CFSB), Dune Acquisition (DUNE), Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB), and Nuveen Multi-Market Income Fund (JMM). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Hennessy Advisors vs.
Hennessy Advisors (NASDAQ:HNNA) and U.S. Global Investors (NASDAQ:GROW) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.
U.S. Global Investors received 29 more outperform votes than Hennessy Advisors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.72% of users gave Hennessy Advisors an outperform vote while only 50.20% of users gave U.S. Global Investors an outperform vote.
Hennessy Advisors has a net margin of 19.60% compared to U.S. Global Investors' net margin of 14.28%.
Hennessy Advisors has higher revenue and earnings than U.S. Global Investors. Hennessy Advisors 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.
13.9% of Hennessy Advisors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of U.S. Global Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 37.7% of Hennessy Advisors shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of U.S. Global Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, U.S. Global Investors had 8 more articles in the media than Hennessy Advisors. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for U.S. Global Investors and 2 mentions for Hennessy Advisors. Hennessy Advisors' average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat U.S. Global Investors' score of 0.10 indicating that Hennessy Advisors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hennessy Advisors has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Global Investors has a beta of 1.99, meaning that its share price is 99% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hennessy Advisors pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. U.S. Global Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Hennessy Advisors pays out 83.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. U.S. Global Investors pays out 40.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Hennessy Advisors beats U.S. Global Investors on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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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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