Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL) Competitors

Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL) and Oaktree Specialty Lending (NASDAQ:OCSL) 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, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk and community ranking.

Do analysts recommend DHIL or OCSL?

Oaktree Specialty Lending has a consensus target price of $16.75, suggesting a potential upside of 7.30%. Given Oaktree Specialty Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Oaktree Specialty Lending is more favorable than Diamond Hill Investment Group.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Diamond Hill Investment Group	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Oaktree Specialty Lending	1 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.86

Which has more risk & volatility, DHIL or OCSL?

Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oaktree Specialty Lending has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of DHIL or OCSL?

65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.8% of Oaktree Specialty Lending shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Oaktree Specialty Lending shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is DHIL or OCSL a better dividend stock?

Diamond Hill Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Oaktree Specialty Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays out 38.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Oaktree Specialty Lending pays out 238.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the media refer more to DHIL or OCSL?

In the previous week, Oaktree Specialty Lending had 1 more articles in the media than Diamond Hill Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Oaktree Specialty Lending and 7 mentions for Diamond Hill Investment Group. Oaktree Specialty Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.23 beat Diamond Hill Investment Group's score of 1.15 indicating that Oaktree Specialty Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Diamond Hill Investment Group	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Oaktree Specialty Lending	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is DHIL or OCSL more profitable?

Diamond Hill Investment Group has a net margin of 33.88% compared to Oaktree Specialty Lending's net margin of 14.75%. Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity of 20.00% beat Oaktree Specialty Lending's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Diamond Hill Investment Group	33.88%	20.00%	14.34%
Oaktree Specialty Lending	14.75%	12.07%	5.57%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in DHIL or OCSL?

Oaktree Specialty Lending received 275 more outperform votes than Diamond Hill Investment Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.91% of users gave Diamond Hill Investment Group an outperform vote while only 59.39% of users gave Oaktree Specialty Lending an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Diamond Hill Investment Group	Outperform Votes 209 63.91%	Underperform Votes 118 36.09%
Oaktree Specialty Lending	Outperform Votes 484 59.39%	Underperform Votes 331 40.61%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, DHIL or OCSL?

Oaktree Specialty Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Diamond Hill Investment Group. Diamond Hill Investment Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oaktree Specialty Lending, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Diamond Hill Investment Group	$151.10M	2.69	$42.23M	$15.63	9.32
Oaktree Specialty Lending	$48.88M	26.26	$57.90M	$0.67	23.30

Summary

Oaktree Specialty Lending beats Diamond Hill Investment Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.