SAMG vs. BRDG, MRCC, ERES, BANX, WHG, SAR, GECC, VALU, DHIL, and FDUS
Should you be buying Silvercrest Asset Management Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Silvercrest Asset Management Group include Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), Monroe Capital (MRCC), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), Saratoga Investment (SAR), Great Elm Capital (GECC), Value Line (VALU), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), and Fidus Investment (FDUS). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Bridge Investment Group (NYSE:BRDG) and Silvercrest Asset Management Group (NASDAQ:SAMG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Silvercrest Asset Management Group has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bridge Investment Group. Bridge Investment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Silvercrest Asset Management Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Silvercrest Asset Management Group received 162 more outperform votes than Bridge Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.46% of users gave Bridge Investment Group an outperform vote while only 58.04% of users gave Silvercrest Asset Management Group an outperform vote.
Bridge Investment Group has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silvercrest Asset Management Group has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Bridge Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Silvercrest Asset Management Group pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Bridge Investment Group pays out -62.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Silvercrest Asset Management Group pays out 79.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Silvercrest Asset Management Group has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Silvercrest Asset Management Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Bridge Investment Group presently has a consensus price target of $10.67, suggesting a potential upside of 55.49%. Given Silvercrest Asset Management Group's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Bridge Investment Group is more favorable than Silvercrest Asset Management Group.
52.8% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.6% of Silvercrest Asset Management Group shares are held by institutional investors. 65.9% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 16.3% of Silvercrest Asset Management Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Silvercrest Asset Management Group has a net margin of 7.75% compared to Silvercrest Asset Management Group's net margin of -1.73%. Bridge Investment Group's return on equity of 13.10% beat Silvercrest Asset Management Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Silvercrest Asset Management Group had 4 more articles in the media than Bridge Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Silvercrest Asset Management Group and 1 mentions for Bridge Investment Group. Bridge Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat Silvercrest Asset Management Group's score of -1.00 indicating that Silvercrest Asset Management Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Silvercrest Asset Management Group beats Bridge Investment Group on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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