VALU vs. DHIL, MN, SAMG, PZN, PUYI, SSTK, SCHL, DJCO, MKTW, and TRI
Should you be buying Value Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Value Line include Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Manning & Napier (MN), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), Pzena Investment Management (PZN), Highest Performances (PUYI), Shutterstock (SSTK), Scholastic (SCHL), Daily Journal (DJCO), MarketWise (MKTW), and Thomson Reuters (TRI).
Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) and Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and profitability.
Diamond Hill Investment Group received 28 more outperform votes than Value Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.69% of users gave Diamond Hill Investment Group an outperform vote while only 57.37% of users gave Value Line an outperform vote.
6.3% of Value Line shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Value Line shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Value Line had 9 more articles in the media than Diamond Hill Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Value Line and 2 mentions for Diamond Hill Investment Group. Diamond Hill Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Value Line's score of 0.57 indicating that Diamond Hill Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has higher revenue and earnings than Value Line. Diamond Hill Investment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Value Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Value Line pays out 61.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays out 40.7% 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. Value Line has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Diamond Hill Investment Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Value Line has a net margin of 50.73% compared to Diamond Hill Investment Group's net margin of 28.97%. Value Line's return on equity of 21.65% beat Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity.
Value Line has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Diamond Hill Investment Group beats Value Line on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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