NOAH vs. BRDG, ABL, BSIG, FDUS, BBDC, ALTI, VINP, DHIL, VALU, and SAR
Should you be buying Noah stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Noah include Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), Abacus Life (ABL), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Barings BDC (BBDC), AlTi Global (ALTI), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Value Line (VALU), and Saratoga Investment (SAR). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Bridge Investment Group (NYSE:BRDG) and Noah (NYSE:NOAH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Noah has a net margin of 33.36% compared to Noah's net margin of -1.73%. Bridge Investment Group's return on equity of 10.05% beat Noah's return on equity.
Bridge Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Noah pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Bridge Investment Group pays out -62.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Noah pays out 17.6% 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. Noah has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Bridge Investment Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Noah has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Bridge Investment Group. Bridge Investment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Noah, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Noah received 229 more outperform votes than Bridge Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.46% of users gave Bridge Investment Group an outperform vote while only 58.09% of users gave Noah an outperform vote.
Bridge Investment Group has a beta of 1.61, suggesting that its stock price is 61% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Noah has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bridge Investment Group had 2 more articles in the media than Noah. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Bridge Investment Group and 1 mentions for Noah. Bridge Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Noah's score of 0.33 indicating that Noah is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
52.8% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of Noah shares are held by institutional investors. 65.9% of Bridge Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 47.2% of Noah shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Bridge Investment Group presently has a consensus price target of $10.67, indicating a potential upside of 52.60%. Noah has a consensus price target of $18.00, indicating a potential upside of 45.04%. Given Noah's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Bridge Investment Group is more favorable than Noah.
Summary
Noah beats Bridge Investment Group on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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