OFS vs. GAIN, PNNT, GLAD, DHIL, HRZN, SCM, WHF, MFIN, WHG, and SVVC
Should you be buying OFS Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of OFS Capital include Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), WhiteHorse Finance (WHF), Medallion Financial (MFIN), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), and Firsthand Technology Value Fund (SVVC). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
OFS Capital (NASDAQ:OFS) and Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 97.71% compared to OFS Capital's net margin of -23.41%. OFS Capital's return on equity of 12.72% beat Gladstone Investment's return on equity.
OFS Capital has a beta of 1.73, suggesting that its stock price is 73% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
10.8% of OFS Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of OFS Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
OFS Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. OFS Capital pays out -137.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gladstone Investment pays out 38.7% 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. OFS Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, OFS Capital had 2 more articles in the media than Gladstone Investment. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for OFS Capital and 2 mentions for Gladstone Investment. Gladstone Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat OFS Capital's score of 0.31 indicating that Gladstone Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Investment has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.21%. Given Gladstone Investment's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Gladstone Investment is more favorable than OFS Capital.
Gladstone Investment has higher revenue and earnings than OFS Capital. OFS Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Investment received 138 more outperform votes than OFS Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.47% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 59.64% of users gave OFS Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Gladstone Investment beats OFS Capital on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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