STEW vs. HTGC, DNP, ADX, PTY, USA, RVT, GSBD, TY, GAB, and CET
Should you be buying SRH Total Return Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SRH Total Return Fund include Hercules Capital (HTGC), DNP Select Income Fund (DNP), Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Royce Value Trust (RVT), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Tri-Continental (TY), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), and Central Securities (CET). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
SRH Total Return Fund (NYSE:STEW) and Hercules Capital (NYSE:HTGC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment and community ranking.
15.6% of SRH Total Return Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.7% of Hercules Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of SRH Total Return Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Hercules Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SRH Total Return Fund has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hercules Capital has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its share price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Hercules Capital had 3 more articles in the media than SRH Total Return Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Hercules Capital and 1 mentions for SRH Total Return Fund. Hercules Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat SRH Total Return Fund's score of 0.03 indicating that Hercules Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hercules Capital has a consensus price target of $18.88, suggesting a potential downside of 11.90%. Given Hercules Capital's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Hercules Capital is more favorable than SRH Total Return Fund.
Hercules Capital has higher revenue and earnings than SRH Total Return Fund.
SRH Total Return Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Hercules Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Hercules Capital pays out 72.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Hercules Capital has a net margin of 69.98% compared to SRH Total Return Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Hercules Capital's return on equity of 18.35% beat SRH Total Return Fund's return on equity.
Hercules Capital received 465 more outperform votes than SRH Total Return Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Hercules Capital beats SRH Total Return Fund on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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