Silvercrest Asset Management Group (NASDAQ:SAMG) versus ONEX (OTCMKTS:ONEXF) Head to Head Analysis

Silvercrest Asset Management Group (NASDAQ:SAMG) and ONEX (OTCMKTS:ONEXF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for Silvercrest Asset Management Group and ONEX, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Silvercrest Asset Management Group	1	1	0	0	1.50
ONEX	0	1	2	0	2.67

Profitability

This table compares Silvercrest Asset Management Group and ONEX’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Silvercrest Asset Management Group	3.90%	11.99%	7.44%
ONEX	68.63%	7.16%	4.75%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

47.6% of Silvercrest Asset Management Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.7% of ONEX shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.4% of Silvercrest Asset Management Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Dividends

Silvercrest Asset Management Group pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. ONEX pays an annual dividend of $0.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Silvercrest Asset Management Group pays out 158.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ONEX pays out 3.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Silvercrest Asset Management Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Silvercrest Asset Management Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Silvercrest Asset Management Group and ONEX”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Silvercrest Asset Management Group	$125.32 million	1.25	$4.89 million	$0.53	25.11
ONEX	$899.00 million	5.59	$617.00 million	$8.87	8.25

ONEX has higher revenue and earnings than Silvercrest Asset Management Group. ONEX is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Silvercrest Asset Management Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Risk and Volatility

Silvercrest Asset Management Group has a beta of 0.71, suggesting that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ONEX has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

ONEX beats Silvercrest Asset Management Group on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Silvercrest Asset Management Group

Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc., a wealth management firm, provides financial advisory and related family office services in the United States. The company serves ultra-high net worth individuals and families, as well as their trusts; endowments; foundations; and other institutional investors. It also manages funds of funds and other investment funds. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About ONEX

Onex Corporation is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions and platform acquisitions. The firm makes investments in buyouts, large- middle market, large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap market and distressed companies. It also invests in recapitalization, growth capital, corporate carve-outs of subsidiaries and mission-critical supply divisions from multinational corporations, operational restructurings of undervalued businesses, and builds up. The firm seeks to invest in technology, electronics manufacturing services, industrial, aerospace, healthcare, retail, restaurants, industrials products, customer care services, metal services, building products, entertainment, gaming, cabinetry products, commercial vehicles, commercial and investment banking, financial services, commercial and multi-unit residential real estate. It invests in global businesses headquartered in North America, including United States and Canada, or Europe. The firm seeks to invest between $125 million and $1 billion in companies that have minimum revenues of $300 million. It does not consider size if the company is in an industry in which the firm already has presence. The firm seeks to make direct as well as co-investments through managed private equity, real estate and credit funds. It seeks to acquire a control position in its portfolio companies. Onex Corporation was founded in 1984 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in New York, New York; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts and London, United Kingdom.