GAMI vs. AC, TIGR, OPY, WT, NAVI, TIPT, HBT, WULF, MUJ, and TREE Should you be buying GAMCO Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GAMCO Investors include Associated Capital Group (AC), UP Fintech (TIGR), Oppenheimer (OPY), WisdomTree (WT), Navient (NAVI), Tiptree (TIPT), HBT Financial (HBT), TeraWulf (WULF), BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), and LendingTree (TREE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
GAMCO Investors (NYSE:GAMI ) and Associated Capital Group (NYSE:AC ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking and dividends.
GAMCO Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Associated Capital Group. GAMCO Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Associated Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
GAMCO Investors has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Associated Capital Group has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500.
GAMCO Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Associated Capital Group pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. GAMCO Investors pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Associated Capital Group pays out 11.6% 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. GAMCO Investors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
3.3% of GAMCO Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.1% of Associated Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. 81.2% of GAMCO Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 85.6% of Associated Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, GAMCO Investors had 7 more articles in the media than Associated Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for GAMCO Investors and 1 mentions for Associated Capital Group. GAMCO Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.13 beat Associated Capital Group's score of 0.00 indicating that GAMCO Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Associated Capital Group has a consensus price target of $27.50, suggesting a potential downside of 19.64%. Given Associated Capital Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Associated Capital Group is more favorable than GAMCO Investors.
Associated Capital Group has a net margin of 253.37% compared to GAMCO Investors' net margin of 25.81%. GAMCO Investors' return on equity of 35.19% beat Associated Capital Group's return on equity.
Associated Capital Group received 125 more outperform votes than GAMCO Investors when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary GAMCO Investors beats Associated Capital Group on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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