U.S. Global Investors (GROW) Competitors

U.S. Global Investors (NASDAQ:GROW) and Scully Royalty (NYSE:SRL) 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, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation and profitability.

Which has more volatility and risk, GROW or SRL?

U.S. Global Investors has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scully Royalty has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, GROW or SRL?

U.S. Global Investors has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Scully Royalty.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
U.S. Global Investors	$9.42M	3.34	$1.33M	$0.03	78.67
Scully Royalty	$46.53M	2.61	$1.04M	N/A	N/A

Is GROW or SRL a better dividend stock?

U.S. Global Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Scully Royalty pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. U.S. Global Investors pays out 300.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Scully Royalty has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in GROW or SRL?

U.S. Global Investors received 47 more outperform votes than Scully Royalty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.64% of users gave Scully Royalty an outperform vote while only 37.98% of users gave U.S. Global Investors an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
U.S. Global Investors	Outperform Votes 128 37.98%	Underperform Votes 209 62.02%
Scully Royalty	Outperform Votes 81 68.64%	Underperform Votes 37 31.36%

Is GROW or SRL more profitable?

U.S. Global Investors has a net margin of 5.40% compared to Scully Royalty's net margin of 0.00%. U.S. Global Investors' return on equity of 1.05% beat Scully Royalty's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
U.S. Global Investors	5.40%	1.05%	0.99%
Scully Royalty	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do institutionals & insiders believe in GROW or SRL?

23.6% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.0% of Scully Royalty shares are held by institutional investors. 19.2% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.9% of Scully Royalty shares are held 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.

Does the media prefer GROW or SRL?

In the previous week, U.S. Global Investors had 3 more articles in the media than Scully Royalty. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for U.S. Global Investors and 0 mentions for Scully Royalty. Scully Royalty's average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat U.S. Global Investors' score of 0.76 indicating that Scully Royalty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
U.S. Global Investors	Positive
Scully Royalty	Very Positive

Summary

U.S. Global Investors beats Scully Royalty on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.