DHIL vs. VALU, PUYI, SAMG, PZN, SCU, VRTS, OCSL, CSWC, TCPC, and SLRC
Should you be buying Diamond Hill Investment Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Diamond Hill Investment Group include Value Line (VALU), Highest Performances (PUYI), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), Pzena Investment Management (PZN), Sculptor Capital Management (SCU), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Capital Southwest (CSWC), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), and SLR Investment (SLRC).
Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL) and Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
Value Line has a net margin of 47.81% compared to Diamond Hill Investment Group's net margin of 30.60%. Value Line's return on equity of 21.23% beat Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity.
In the previous week, Value Line had 15 more articles in the media than Diamond Hill Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Value Line and 4 mentions for Diamond Hill Investment Group. Value Line's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Diamond Hill Investment Group's score of 0.45 indicating that Value Line is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Diamond Hill Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays out 40.7% 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. Diamond Hill Investment Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Diamond Hill Investment Group received 31 more outperform votes than Value Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.69% of users gave Diamond Hill Investment Group an outperform vote while only 58.67% of users gave Value Line an outperform vote.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has higher revenue and earnings than Value Line. Diamond Hill Investment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Value Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of Value Line shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Value Line shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Value Line has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Diamond Hill Investment Group beats Value Line on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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