VRTS vs. FDUS, DHIL, CNS, AMG, CIXXF, GCMG, HPH, BBDC, NOAH, and BRDG
Should you be buying Virtus Investment Partners stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virtus Investment Partners include Fidus Investment (FDUS), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), CI Financial (CIXXF), GCM Grosvenor (GCMG), Highest Performances (HPH), Barings BDC (BBDC), Noah (NOAH), and Bridge Investment Group (BRDG). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) and Fidus Investment (NASDAQ:FDUS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
Virtus Investment Partners pays an annual dividend of $7.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Fidus Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Virtus Investment Partners pays out 45.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidus Investment pays out 59.1% 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.
80.5% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.1% of Fidus Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Fidus Investment 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.
Virtus Investment Partners has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidus Investment has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Virtus Investment Partners received 36 more outperform votes than Fidus Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Fidus Investment an outperform vote while only 53.49% of users gave Virtus Investment Partners an outperform vote.
Virtus Investment Partners currently has a consensus price target of $246.33, indicating a potential upside of 5.57%. Fidus Investment has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.17%. Given Fidus Investment's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Fidus Investment is more favorable than Virtus Investment Partners.
Fidus Investment has a net margin of 60.25% compared to Virtus Investment Partners' net margin of 14.02%. Virtus Investment Partners' return on equity of 19.61% beat Fidus Investment's return on equity.
In the previous week, Virtus Investment Partners had 3 more articles in the media than Fidus Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Virtus Investment Partners and 2 mentions for Fidus Investment. Fidus Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Virtus Investment Partners' score of 0.68 indicating that Fidus Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Virtus Investment Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Fidus Investment. Fidus Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virtus Investment Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Virtus Investment Partners beats Fidus Investment on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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