HTGC vs. ADX, NUV, PTY, GAB, USA, GSBD, TY, RVT, QQQX, and STEW
Should you be buying Hercules Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hercules Capital include Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Tri-Continental (TY), Royce Value Trust (RVT), Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX), and SRH Total Return Fund (STEW). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Hercules Capital vs.
Adams Diversified Equity Fund (NYSE:ADX) and Hercules Capital (NYSE:HTGC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
Adams Diversified Equity Fund has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hercules Capital has a beta of 1.41, suggesting that its stock price is 41% more volatile than the S&P 500.
18.8% of Adams Diversified Equity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.8% of Hercules Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Adams Diversified Equity Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Hercules Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hercules Capital has a consensus target price of $14.71, suggesting a potential upside of 1.76%. Given Hercules Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hercules Capital is more favorable than Adams Diversified Equity Fund.
Adams Diversified Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.07 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Hercules Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Hercules Capital pays out 106.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hercules Capital has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Hercules Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Hercules Capital received 307 more outperform votes than Adams Diversified Equity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.62% of users gave Hercules Capital an outperform vote while only 53.09% of users gave Adams Diversified Equity Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Hercules Capital had 2 more articles in the media than Adams Diversified Equity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Hercules Capital and 2 mentions for Adams Diversified Equity Fund. Adams Diversified Equity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Hercules Capital's score of 0.85 indicating that Adams Diversified Equity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Hercules Capital has a net margin of 55.30% compared to Adams Diversified Equity Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Hercules Capital's return on equity of 15.58% beat Adams Diversified Equity Fund's return on equity.
Hercules Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Adams Diversified Equity Fund.
Summary
Hercules Capital beats Adams Diversified Equity Fund on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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