GAMCO Investors (GAMI) Competitors

Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE:ABR) and GAMCO Investors (NYSE:GAMI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in ABR or GAMI?

57.3% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of GAMCO Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 3.7% of Arbor Realty Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 81.2% of GAMCO Investors 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.

Which has more risk & volatility, ABR or GAMI?

Arbor Realty Trust has a beta of 1.5, meaning that its stock price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GAMCO Investors has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is ABR or GAMI a better dividend stock?

Arbor Realty Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. GAMCO Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Arbor Realty Trust pays out 115.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. GAMCO Investors pays out 11.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GAMCO Investors has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Does the media refer more to ABR or GAMI?

In the previous week, Arbor Realty Trust had 2 more articles in the media than GAMCO Investors. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Arbor Realty Trust and 3 mentions for GAMCO Investors. Arbor Realty Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat GAMCO Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Arbor Realty Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Arbor Realty Trust	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	1 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
GAMCO Investors	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer ABR or GAMI?

Arbor Realty Trust received 288 more outperform votes than GAMCO Investors when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Arbor Realty Trust	Outperform Votes 288 60.38%	Underperform Votes 189 39.62%
GAMCO Investors	N/A	N/A

Do analysts prefer ABR or GAMI?

Arbor Realty Trust currently has a consensus target price of $13.20, suggesting a potential upside of 45.29%. Given Arbor Realty Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Arbor Realty Trust is more favorable than GAMCO Investors.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Arbor Realty Trust	2 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.80
GAMCO Investors	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, ABR or GAMI?

Arbor Realty Trust has higher revenue and earnings than GAMCO Investors. GAMCO Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Arbor Realty Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Arbor Realty Trust	$596.64M	2.93	$264.64M	$1.04	8.74
GAMCO Investors	$231.40M	2.30	$64.46M	$2.81	8.44

Is ABR or GAMI more profitable?

GAMCO Investors has a net margin of 27.86% compared to Arbor Realty Trust's net margin of 22.66%. GAMCO Investors' return on equity of 36.01% beat Arbor Realty Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Arbor Realty Trust	22.66%	14.75%	2.65%
GAMCO Investors	27.86%	36.01%	23.05%

Summary

Arbor Realty Trust beats GAMCO Investors on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.