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).
Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) and Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
6.3% of Value Line shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Value Line shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Value Line has a net margin of 47.81% compared to Value Line's net margin of 30.60%. Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity of 21.23% beat Value Line's return on equity.
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.
Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays an annual dividend of $6.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Value Line pays out 61.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diamond Hill Investment Group pays out 40.7% 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. Value Line has raised its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Diamond Hill Investment Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Value Line had 16 more articles in the media than Diamond Hill Investment Group. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Value Line and 2 mentions for Diamond Hill Investment Group. Diamond Hill Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat Value Line's score of 0.45 indicating that Value Line is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Value Line has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 0.97, indicating that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Diamond Hill Investment Group beats Value Line on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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