GAMI vs. NAVI, WT, AC, TIGR, OPY, SIEB, WETH, DOMH, LGHL, and FUTU
Should you be buying GAMCO Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of GAMCO Investors include Navient (NAVI), WisdomTree (WT), Associated Capital Group (AC), UP Fintech (TIGR), Oppenheimer (OPY), Siebert Financial (SIEB), Wetouch Technology (WETH), Dominari (DOMH), Lion Group (LGHL), and Futu (FUTU). These companies are all part of the "security brokers & dealers" industry.
Navient (NASDAQ:NAVI) and GAMCO Investors (NYSE:GAMI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, risk, media sentiment and earnings.
In the previous week, Navient had 3 more articles in the media than GAMCO Investors. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Navient and 0 mentions for GAMCO Investors. GAMCO Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Navient's score of 0.00 indicating that Navient is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Navient has a beta of 1.39, meaning that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GAMCO Investors has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Navient currently has a consensus target price of $16.10, indicating a potential upside of 6.83%. Given GAMCO Investors' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Navient is more favorable than GAMCO Investors.
Navient pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. GAMCO Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Navient pays out 41.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GAMCO Investors pays out 6.7% 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.
Navient received 425 more outperform votes than GAMCO Investors when rated by MarketBeat users.
GAMCO Investors has a net margin of 25.81% compared to GAMCO Investors' net margin of 3.93%. Navient's return on equity of 34.27% beat GAMCO Investors' return on equity.
Navient has higher revenue and earnings than GAMCO Investors. Navient is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GAMCO Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
97.1% of Navient shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of GAMCO Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 28.0% of Navient shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 81.2% of GAMCO Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Navient beats GAMCO Investors on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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