BANX vs. DHIL, VALU, SAR, SAMG, ERES, WHG, GECC, HNNA, GROW, and PHCF
Should you be buying ArrowMark Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ArrowMark Financial include Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Value Line (VALU), Saratoga Investment (SAR), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), Great Elm Capital (GECC), Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), U.S. Global Investors (GROW), and Puhui Wealth Investment Management (PHCF). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
ArrowMark Financial (NASDAQ:BANX) and Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
ArrowMark Financial has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ArrowMark Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays out 40.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
24.9% of ArrowMark Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of ArrowMark Financial shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by company 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.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has a net margin of 30.60% compared to ArrowMark Financial's net margin of 0.00%. Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity of 18.75% beat ArrowMark Financial's return on equity.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has higher revenue and earnings than ArrowMark Financial.
ArrowMark Financial received 51 more outperform votes than Diamond Hill Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.27% of users gave ArrowMark Financial an outperform vote while only 63.69% of users gave Diamond Hill Investment Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, ArrowMark Financial had 1 more articles in the media than Diamond Hill Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ArrowMark Financial and 2 mentions for Diamond Hill Investment Group. ArrowMark Financial's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Diamond Hill Investment Group's score of 0.45 indicating that ArrowMark Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Diamond Hill Investment Group beats ArrowMark Financial on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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