SIEB vs. GECC, FXNC, FCAP, NMI, CFBK, BCG, NMT, SBFG, MRBK, and FNWB
Should you be buying Siebert Financial stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Siebert Financial include Great Elm Capital (GECC), First National (FXNC), First Capital (FCAP), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), CF Bankshares (CFBK), Binah Capital Group (BCG), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), SB Financial Group (SBFG), Meridian (MRBK), and First Northwest Bancorp (FNWB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Siebert Financial (NASDAQ:SIEB) and Great Elm Capital (NASDAQ:GECC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Great Elm Capital has a net margin of 46.02% compared to Siebert Financial's net margin of 10.94%. Siebert Financial's return on equity of 13.56% beat Great Elm Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, Siebert Financial had 5 more articles in the media than Great Elm Capital. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Siebert Financial and 2 mentions for Great Elm Capital. Great Elm Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.93 beat Siebert Financial's score of 0.38 indicating that Great Elm Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Great Elm Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Siebert Financial. Great Elm Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Siebert Financial, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
1.5% of Siebert Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of Great Elm Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 47.0% of Siebert Financial shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of Great Elm Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Siebert Financial has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Great Elm Capital has a beta of 1.53, indicating that its share price is 53% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Great Elm Capital received 147 more outperform votes than Siebert Financial when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.65% of users gave Great Elm Capital an outperform vote while only 36.73% of users gave Siebert Financial an outperform vote.
Summary
Great Elm Capital beats Siebert Financial on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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