CION vs. TRIN, LPA, MRNO, OBDE, MSDL, FCBC, TIPT, HBT, CFB, and NBBK
Should you be buying CION Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CION Investment include Trinity Capital (TRIN), Logistic Properties Of The Americas (LPA), Murano Global Investments (MRNO), Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL), First Community Bankshares (FCBC), Tiptree (TIPT), HBT Financial (HBT), CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB), and NB Bancorp (NBBK). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Trinity Capital (NASDAQ:TRIN) and CION Investment (NYSE:CION) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and earnings.
24.6% of Trinity Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of CION Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Trinity Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CION Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Trinity Capital has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CION Investment has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
CION Investment has higher revenue and earnings 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 1 more articles in the media than CION Investment. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Trinity Capital and 1 mentions for CION Investment. Trinity Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat CION Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that CION Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
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.
Trinity Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.5%. CION Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. 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 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 has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and CION Investment has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Trinity Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Trinity Capital presently has a consensus target price of $15.58, indicating a potential upside of 3.34%. CION Investment has a consensus target price of $11.13, indicating a potential downside of 2.58%. Given CION Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Trinity Capital is more favorable than CION Investment.
Summary
Trinity Capital beats CION Investment on 15 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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