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.
Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL ) and ArrowMark Financial (NASDAQ:BANX ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends and media sentiment.
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.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ArrowMark Financial has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has a net margin of 30.60% compared to Diamond Hill Investment Group's net margin of 0.00%. ArrowMark Financial's return on equity of 18.75% beat Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity.
Diamond Hill Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. ArrowMark Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays out 40.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ArrowMark Financial has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. ArrowMark Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.9% of ArrowMark Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 3.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of ArrowMark Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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. Diamond Hill Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat ArrowMark Financial's score of 0.94 indicating that ArrowMark Financial is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary Diamond Hill Investment Group and ArrowMark Financial tied by winning 8 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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