VALU vs. SAR, DHIL, SAMG, PUYI, ERES, VINP, BANX, WHG, ALTI, and GECC
Should you be buying Value Line stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Value Line include Saratoga Investment (SAR), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), Highest Performances (PUYI), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), AlTi Global (ALTI), and Great Elm Capital (GECC).
Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) and Saratoga Investment (NYSE:SAR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Value Line has a net margin of 47.81% compared to Saratoga Investment's net margin of 16.45%. Value Line's return on equity of 21.23% beat Saratoga Investment's return on equity.
Saratoga Investment has a consensus target price of $26.69, suggesting a potential upside of 11.94%. Given Saratoga Investment's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Saratoga Investment is more favorable than Value Line.
In the previous week, Value Line had 14 more articles in the media than Saratoga Investment. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Value Line and 3 mentions for Saratoga Investment. Value Line's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Saratoga Investment's score of 0.37 indicating that Value Line is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Saratoga Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Value Line. Saratoga Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Value Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Saratoga Investment received 88 more outperform votes than Value Line when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.46% of users gave Value Line an outperform vote while only 58.54% of users gave Saratoga Investment an outperform vote.
Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Saratoga Investment pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Value Line pays out 61.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Saratoga Investment pays out 150.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Value Line has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saratoga Investment has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
6.3% of Value Line shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Saratoga Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Value Line shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Saratoga Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Value Line beats Saratoga Investment on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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