TRIN vs. CION, NCDL, LPA, OBDE, EGBN, WULF, LPRO, NYMT, KREF, and PRA
Should you be buying Trinity Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trinity Capital include CION Investment (CION), Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending (NCDL), Logistic Properties Of The Americas (LPA), Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), TeraWulf (WULF), Open Lending (LPRO), New York Mortgage Trust (NYMT), KKR Real Estate Finance Trust (KREF), and ProAssurance (PRA).
CION Investment (NYSE:CION) and Trinity Capital (NASDAQ:TRIN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Trinity Capital has a net margin of 42.28% compared to Trinity Capital's net margin of 37.97%. CION Investment's return on equity of 16.86% beat Trinity Capital's return on equity.
32.0% of CION Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.6% of Trinity Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of CION Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 7.8% of Trinity Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
CION Investment presently has a consensus price target of $11.13, suggesting a potential upside of 0.86%. Trinity Capital has a consensus price target of $15.58, suggesting a potential upside of 10.05%. Given CION Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Trinity Capital is more favorable than CION Investment.
CION Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Trinity Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.4%. CION Investment pays out 77.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Trinity Capital pays out 106.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CION Investment has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Trinity Capital has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Trinity Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Trinity Capital received 48 more outperform votes than CION Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.32% of users gave Trinity Capital an outperform vote while only 40.00% of users gave CION Investment an outperform vote.
CION Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Trinity Capital. CION Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trinity Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Trinity Capital had 2 more articles in the media than CION Investment. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Trinity Capital and 1 mentions for CION Investment. Trinity Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat CION Investment's score of 0.20 indicating that CION Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
CION Investment has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Trinity Capital has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its share price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Trinity Capital beats CION Investment on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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