GAIN vs. VRTS, OCSL, CSWC, TCPC, SLRC, FDUS, GLAD, PNNT, DHIL, and HRZN
Should you be buying Gladstone Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Investment include Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Capital Southwest (CSWC), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), SLR Investment (SLRC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), and Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) and Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.
80.5% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Virtus Investment Partners has a beta of 1.5, suggesting that its stock price is 50% 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.
In the previous week, Virtus Investment Partners had 3 more articles in the media than Gladstone Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Virtus Investment Partners and 2 mentions for Gladstone Investment. Virtus Investment Partners' average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Gladstone Investment's score of 0.63 indicating that Gladstone Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Virtus Investment Partners currently has a consensus price target of $247.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.05%. Gladstone Investment has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.21%. Given Gladstone Investment's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Virtus Investment Partners is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
Virtus Investment Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Gladstone Investment. Gladstone Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virtus Investment Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Virtus Investment Partners pays an annual dividend of $7.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Virtus Investment Partners pays out 45.8% 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. Virtus Investment Partners has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Gladstone Investment has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years. Gladstone Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 97.71% compared to Gladstone Investment's net margin of 14.02%. Gladstone Investment's return on equity of 19.61% beat Virtus Investment Partners' return on equity.
Gladstone Investment received 44 more outperform votes than Virtus Investment Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.47% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Virtus Investment Partners an outperform vote.
Summary
Virtus Investment Partners beats Gladstone Investment on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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