GROW vs. HNNA, GECC, WHG, BANX, ERES, OPHC, MSVB, HFBL, AAME, and JFU
Should you be buying U.S. Global Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Global Investors include Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), Great Elm Capital (GECC), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), OptimumBank (OPHC), Mid-Southern Bancorp (MSVB), Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. of Louisiana (HFBL), Atlantic American (AAME), and 9F (JFU). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
U.S. Global Investors (NASDAQ:GROW) and Hennessy Advisors (NASDAQ:HNNA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, earnings and community ranking.
Hennessy Advisors has higher revenue and earnings than U.S. Global Investors. Hennessy Advisors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than U.S. Global Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
U.S. Global Investors has a beta of 1.96, meaning that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hennessy Advisors has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
U.S. Global Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Hennessy Advisors pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. U.S. Global Investors pays out 75.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Hennessy Advisors pays out 80.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, U.S. Global Investors had 4 more articles in the media than Hennessy Advisors. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for U.S. Global Investors and 0 mentions for Hennessy Advisors. U.S. Global Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.28 beat Hennessy Advisors' score of 0.00 indicating that U.S. Global Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
23.6% of U.S. Global Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of Hennessy Advisors shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.2% of U.S. Global Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 37.8% of Hennessy Advisors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Hennessy Advisors has a net margin of 20.75% compared to U.S. Global Investors' net margin of 13.08%. Hennessy Advisors' return on equity of 5.90% beat U.S. Global Investors' return on equity.
U.S. Global Investors received 29 more outperform votes than Hennessy Advisors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.72% of users gave Hennessy Advisors an outperform vote while only 42.95% of users gave U.S. Global Investors an outperform vote.
Summary
Hennessy Advisors beats U.S. Global Investors on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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