GECC vs. SAR, SAMG, BANX, ERES, WHG, HNNA, GROW, PHCF, HYW, and MRCC
Should you be buying Great Elm Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Elm Capital include 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), Hywin (HYW), and Monroe Capital (MRCC). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Great Elm Capital (NASDAQ:GECC) and Saratoga Investment (NYSE:SAR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Great Elm Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Saratoga Investment. Great Elm Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saratoga Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Saratoga Investment received 27 more outperform votes than Great Elm Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.65% of users gave Great Elm Capital an outperform vote while only 58.02% of users gave Saratoga Investment an outperform vote.
Great Elm Capital has a net margin of 46.02% compared to Saratoga Investment's net margin of 6.22%. Saratoga Investment's return on equity of 14.53% beat Great Elm Capital's return on equity.
Great Elm Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Saratoga Investment pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. Great Elm Capital pays out 63.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Saratoga Investment pays out 411.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Great Elm Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Saratoga Investment had 5 more articles in the media than Great Elm Capital. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Saratoga Investment and 4 mentions for Great Elm Capital. Great Elm Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Saratoga Investment's score of 0.44 indicating that Great Elm Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Saratoga Investment has a consensus target price of $25.69, indicating a potential upside of 9.52%. Given Saratoga Investment's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Saratoga Investment is more favorable than Great Elm Capital.
Great Elm Capital has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saratoga Investment has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
38.8% of Great Elm Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Saratoga Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of Great Elm Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Saratoga Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Great Elm Capital beats Saratoga Investment on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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