HTGC vs. DNP, ADX, PTY, USA, NUV, GSBD, TY, GAB, RVT, and STEW
Should you be buying Hercules Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hercules Capital include DNP Select Income Fund (DNP), Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Tri-Continental (TY), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Royce Value Trust (RVT), and SRH Total Return Fund (STEW). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
DNP Select Income Fund (NYSE:DNP) and Hercules Capital (NYSE:HTGC) are both mid-cap financial services 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.
Hercules Capital has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.04%. Given DNP Select Income Fund's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hercules Capital is more favorable than DNP Select Income Fund.
DNP Select Income Fund has a beta of 0.47, indicating that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hercules Capital has a beta of 1.34, indicating that its stock price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Hercules Capital has a net margin of 73.26% compared to Hercules Capital's net margin of 0.00%. DNP Select Income Fund's return on equity of 18.60% beat Hercules Capital's return on equity.
8.5% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.7% of Hercules Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Hercules Capital 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.
DNP Select Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Hercules Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Hercules Capital pays out 69.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hercules Capital has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Hercules Capital received 266 more outperform votes than DNP Select Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.80% of users gave DNP Select Income Fund an outperform vote while only 64.16% of users gave Hercules Capital an outperform vote.
Hercules Capital has higher revenue and earnings than DNP Select Income Fund.
In the previous week, Hercules Capital had 4 more articles in the media than DNP Select Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Hercules Capital and 2 mentions for DNP Select Income Fund. DNP Select Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat Hercules Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Hercules Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Hercules Capital beats DNP Select Income Fund on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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