GECC vs. WHG, BANX, ERES, HNNA, GROW, SAMG, SAR, VALU, SIEB, and FCAP
Should you be buying Great Elm Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Great Elm Capital include Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), Hennessy Advisors (HNNA), U.S. Global Investors (GROW), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), Saratoga Investment (SAR), Value Line (VALU), Siebert Financial (SIEB), and First Capital (FCAP). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Great Elm Capital (NASDAQ:GECC) and Westwood Holdings Group (NYSE:WHG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, risk, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Great Elm Capital has a beta of 1.53, meaning that its stock price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Westwood Holdings Group has a beta of 1.23, meaning that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Great Elm Capital has a net margin of 46.02% compared to Westwood Holdings Group's net margin of 13.39%. Great Elm Capital's return on equity of 12.63% beat Westwood Holdings Group's return on equity.
Great Elm Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Westwood Holdings Group. Great Elm Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Westwood Holdings Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
38.8% of Great Elm Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 56.6% of Westwood Holdings Group shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of Great Elm Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of Westwood Holdings Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Westwood Holdings Group had 2 more articles in the media than Great Elm Capital. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Westwood Holdings Group and 1 mentions for Great Elm Capital. Great Elm Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.93 beat Westwood Holdings Group's score of 1.33 indicating that Great Elm Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Great Elm Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.6%. Westwood Holdings Group pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Great Elm Capital pays out 63.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Westwood Holdings Group pays out 44.1% 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.
Great Elm Capital received 21 more outperform votes than Westwood Holdings Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.71% of users gave Westwood Holdings Group an outperform vote while only 65.65% of users gave Great Elm Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Great Elm Capital beats Westwood Holdings Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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