GECC vs. VALU, SAR, SAMG, BANX, ERES, WHG, HNNA, GROW, PHCF, and HYW
Should you be buying Great Elm Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Elm Capital include Value Line (VALU), Saratoga Investment (SAR), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), U.S. Global Investors (GROW), Puhui Wealth Investment Management (PHCF), and Hywin (HYW). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Great Elm Capital (NASDAQ:GECC) and Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Great Elm Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Value Line. Great Elm Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Value Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Great Elm Capital received 61 more outperform votes than Value Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.65% of users gave Great Elm Capital an outperform vote while only 58.47% of users gave Value Line an outperform vote.
Great Elm Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Great Elm Capital pays out 63.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Value Line pays out 61.9% 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.
38.8% of Great Elm Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of Value Line shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Great Elm Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Value Line shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Value Line has a net margin of 47.81% compared to Great Elm Capital's net margin of 46.02%. Value Line's return on equity of 21.23% beat Great Elm Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, Value Line had 1 more articles in the media than Great Elm Capital. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Value Line and 0 mentions for Great Elm Capital. Value Line's average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Great Elm Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Value Line is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Great Elm Capital has a beta of 1.58, meaning that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Value Line has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Value Line beats Great Elm Capital on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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