TRIN vs. CION, OBDE, MSDL, HUT, LDI, HPP, FIP, PFC, CNOB, and PFLT
Should you be buying Trinity Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trinity Capital include CION Investment (CION), Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL), Hut 8 (HUT), loanDepot (LDI), Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), Premier Financial (PFC), ConnectOne Bancorp (CNOB), and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Trinity Capital (NASDAQ:TRIN) and CION Investment (NYSE:CION) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
Trinity Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. CION Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Trinity Capital pays out 126.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. CION Investment pays out 55.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, CION Investment had 7 more articles in the media than Trinity Capital. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for CION Investment and 5 mentions for Trinity Capital. CION Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Trinity Capital's score of 0.52 indicating that CION Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
CION Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Trinity Capital. CION Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trinity Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Trinity Capital presently has a consensus target price of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 3.82%. CION Investment has a consensus target price of $11.75, indicating a potential downside of 5.55%. Given Trinity Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Trinity Capital is more favorable than CION Investment.
Trinity Capital received 49 more outperform votes than CION Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.79% of users gave Trinity Capital an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave CION Investment an outperform vote.
24.6% of Trinity Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of CION Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.8% of Trinity Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of CION Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
CION Investment has a net margin of 51.16% compared to Trinity Capital's net margin of 36.12%. Trinity Capital's return on equity of 16.73% beat CION Investment's return on equity.
Trinity Capital has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, CION Investment has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Trinity Capital beats CION Investment on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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