HNNA vs. SAMG, BANX, ERES, WHG, GECC, GROW, PHCF, HYW, MRCC, and MN
Should you be buying Hennessy Advisors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hennessy Advisors include Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), Great Elm Capital (GECC), U.S. Global Investors (GROW), Puhui Wealth Investment Management (PHCF), Hywin (HYW), Monroe Capital (MRCC), and Manning & Napier (MN). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Hennessy Advisors (NASDAQ:HNNA) and Silvercrest Asset Management Group (NASDAQ:SAMG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, profitability and risk.
Silvercrest Asset Management Group received 96 more outperform votes than Hennessy Advisors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.72% of users gave Hennessy Advisors an outperform vote while only 58.04% of users gave Silvercrest Asset Management Group an outperform vote.
Hennessy Advisors has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Silvercrest Asset Management Group has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Hennessy Advisors has a net margin of 20.75% compared to Silvercrest Asset Management Group's net margin of 7.52%. Silvercrest Asset Management Group's return on equity of 12.88% beat Hennessy Advisors' return on equity.
Silvercrest Asset Management Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hennessy Advisors. Hennessy Advisors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Silvercrest Asset Management Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
10.3% of Hennessy Advisors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.6% of Silvercrest Asset Management Group shares are held by institutional investors. 37.8% of Hennessy Advisors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.3% of Silvercrest Asset Management Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Hennessy Advisors pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Silvercrest Asset Management Group pays an annual dividend of $0.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Hennessy Advisors pays out 80.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Silvercrest Asset Management Group pays out 80.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Silvercrest Asset Management Group had 1 more articles in the media than Hennessy Advisors. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Silvercrest Asset Management Group and 1 mentions for Hennessy Advisors. Hennessy Advisors' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Silvercrest Asset Management Group's score of 1.36 indicating that Hennessy Advisors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Silvercrest Asset Management Group beats Hennessy Advisors on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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