BOC vs. DHIL, MLP, TRC, DGICA, CLDT, GBLI, SPFI, NQP, MUA, and APLD
Should you be buying Boston Omaha stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Boston Omaha include Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Maui Land & Pineapple (MLP), Tejon Ranch (TRC), Donegal Group (DGICA), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), South Plains Financial (SPFI), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), and Applied Digital (APLD). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Boston Omaha (NYSE:BOC) and Diamond Hill Investment Group (NASDAQ:DHIL) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Diamond Hill Investment Group received 203 more outperform votes than Boston Omaha when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.69% of users gave Diamond Hill Investment Group an outperform vote while only 28.57% of users gave Boston Omaha an outperform vote.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has higher revenue and earnings than Boston Omaha. Boston Omaha is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Diamond Hill Investment Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Diamond Hill Investment Group has a net margin of 30.60% compared to Boston Omaha's net margin of -7.28%. Diamond Hill Investment Group's return on equity of 18.75% beat Boston Omaha's return on equity.
Boston Omaha has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Diamond Hill Investment Group has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Boston Omaha presently has a consensus target price of $27.50, indicating a potential upside of 99.42%. Given Boston Omaha's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Boston Omaha is more favorable than Diamond Hill Investment Group.
60.4% of Boston Omaha shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 65.5% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by institutional investors. 26.2% of Boston Omaha shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Diamond Hill Investment Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Diamond Hill Investment Group had 1 more articles in the media than Boston Omaha. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Diamond Hill Investment Group and 7 mentions for Boston Omaha. Diamond Hill Investment Group's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Boston Omaha's score of -0.36 indicating that Diamond Hill Investment Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Diamond Hill Investment Group beats Boston Omaha on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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