OPY vs. GAMI, TIGR, AC, WT, NQP, GBLI, DHIL, CLDT, GLRE, and SPFI
Should you be buying Oppenheimer stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oppenheimer include GAMCO Investors (GAMI), UP Fintech (TIGR), Associated Capital Group (AC), WisdomTree (WT), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Chatham Lodging Trust (CLDT), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), and South Plains Financial (SPFI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Oppenheimer (NYSE:OPY) and GAMCO Investors (NYSE:GAMI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Oppenheimer pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. GAMCO Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. Oppenheimer pays out 16.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. GAMCO Investors pays out 6.7% 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.
Oppenheimer has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GAMCO Investors has a beta of 1.06, meaning that its stock price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Oppenheimer received 298 more outperform votes than GAMCO Investors when rated by MarketBeat users.
32.3% of Oppenheimer shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of GAMCO Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 34.4% of Oppenheimer shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 81.2% of GAMCO Investors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, GAMCO Investors had 2 more articles in the media than Oppenheimer. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for GAMCO Investors and 2 mentions for Oppenheimer. GAMCO Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat Oppenheimer's score of 0.30 indicating that GAMCO Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
GAMCO Investors has a net margin of 25.53% compared to Oppenheimer's net margin of 3.25%. GAMCO Investors' return on equity of 36.38% beat Oppenheimer's return on equity.
GAMCO Investors has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Oppenheimer. GAMCO Investors is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Oppenheimer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
GAMCO Investors beats Oppenheimer on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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