GROW vs. BANX, ERES, WHG, GECC, HNNA, PHCF, HYW, MRCC, SAMG, and MN
Should you be buying U.S. Global Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of U.S. Global Investors include ArrowMark Financial (BANX), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), Great Elm Capital (GECC), Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), Puhui Wealth Investment Management (PHCF), Hywin (HYW), Monroe Capital (MRCC), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), and Manning & Napier (MN). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
ArrowMark Financial (NASDAQ:BANX) and U.S. Global Investors (NASDAQ:GROW) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation and dividends.
ArrowMark Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. U.S. Global Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. U.S. Global Investors pays out 75.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ArrowMark Financial has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. ArrowMark Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, U.S. Global Investors had 2 more articles in the media than ArrowMark Financial. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for U.S. Global Investors and 0 mentions for ArrowMark Financial. U.S. Global Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled ArrowMark Financial'saverage media sentiment score.
ArrowMark Financial received 130 more outperform votes than U.S. Global Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.27% of users gave ArrowMark Financial an outperform vote while only 42.52% of users gave U.S. Global Investors an outperform vote.
ArrowMark Financial has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, U.S. Global Investors has a beta of 1.96, suggesting that its stock price is 96% more volatile than the S&P 500.
24.9% of ArrowMark Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.6% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of ArrowMark Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 19.2% of U.S. Global Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ArrowMark Financial has higher revenue and earnings than U.S. Global Investors.
U.S. Global Investors has a net margin of 13.08% compared to U.S. Global Investors' net margin of 0.00%. ArrowMark Financial's return on equity of 3.05% beat U.S. Global Investors' return on equity.
Summary
ArrowMark Financial beats U.S. Global Investors on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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