GAMI vs. NAVI, WT, AC, TIGR, OPY, SIEB, WETH, DOMH, LGHL, and FUTU
Should you be buying GAMCO Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GAMCO Investors include Navient (NAVI), WisdomTree (WT), Associated Capital Group (AC), UP Fintech (TIGR), Oppenheimer (OPY), Siebert Financial (SIEB), Wetouch Technology (WETH), Dominari (DOMH), Lion Group (LGHL), and Futu (FUTU). These companies are all part of the "security brokers & dealers" industry.
GAMCO Investors (NYSE:GAMI) and Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and media sentiment.
Navient received 425 more outperform votes than GAMCO Investors when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Navient had 1 more articles in the media than GAMCO Investors. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Navient and 2 mentions for GAMCO Investors. Navient's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat GAMCO Investors' score of 0.30 indicating that Navient is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
3.3% of GAMCO Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.1% of Navient shares are held by institutional investors. 81.2% of GAMCO Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 28.0% of Navient shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Navient has a consensus price target of $16.10, suggesting a potential upside of 13.70%. Given Navient's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Navient is more favorable than GAMCO Investors.
GAMCO Investors has a net margin of 25.81% compared to Navient's net margin of 3.93%. GAMCO Investors' return on equity of 34.27% beat Navient's return on equity.
GAMCO Investors has a beta of 1, suggesting that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Navient has a beta of 1.4, suggesting that its stock price is 40% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than GAMCO Investors. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GAMCO Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GAMCO Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. GAMCO Investors pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Navient pays out 41.0% 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.
Summary
Navient beats GAMCO Investors on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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