RILY vs. MSB, LAND, BACQ, GIG, WTF, VACH, SIMA, PSTL, HOND, and APPS
Should you be buying B. Riley Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of B. Riley Financial include Mesabi Trust (MSB), Gladstone Land (LAND), Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp I - Class A (BACQ), Gigcapital7 (GIG), Waton Financial (WTF), Voyager Acquisition (VACH), SIM Acquisition Corp. I (SIMA), Postal Realty Trust (PSTL), HCM II Acquisition (HOND), and Digital Turbine (APPS). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
B. Riley Financial vs.
B. Riley Financial (NASDAQ:RILY) and Mesabi Trust (NYSE:MSB) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
B. Riley Financial pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 64.7%. Mesabi Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. B. Riley Financial pays out -7.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mesabi Trust pays out 31.5% 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. B. Riley Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
B. Riley Financial has a beta of 1.34, suggesting that its share price is 34% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mesabi Trust has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
B. Riley Financial received 34 more outperform votes than Mesabi Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.08% of users gave Mesabi Trust an outperform vote while only 60.60% of users gave B. Riley Financial an outperform vote.
50.2% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by institutional investors. 32.9% of B. Riley Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Mesabi Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mesabi Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than B. Riley Financial. B. Riley Financial is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Mesabi Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Mesabi Trust had 1 more articles in the media than B. Riley Financial. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Mesabi Trust and 2 mentions for B. Riley Financial. Mesabi Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat B. Riley Financial's score of 0.58 indicating that Mesabi Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Mesabi Trust has a net margin of 93.80% compared to B. Riley Financial's net margin of -48.04%. Mesabi Trust's return on equity of 231.09% beat B. Riley Financial's return on equity.
Summary
Mesabi Trust beats B. Riley Financial on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:RILY) was last updated on 4/27/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
