BKF Capital Group (OTCMKTS:BKFG – Get Free Report) and StepStone Group (NASDAQ:STEP – Get Free Report) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Insider and Institutional Ownership
55.5% of StepStone Group shares are held by institutional investors. 10.9% of BKF Capital Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 18.4% of StepStone Group shares are held 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.
Profitability
This table compares BKF Capital Group and StepStone Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| BKF Capital Group | -2.38% | -2.56% | -2.00% |
| StepStone Group | -11.29% | 11.53% | 5.17% |
Volatility and Risk
Analyst Recommendations
This is a breakdown of recent ratings and target prices for BKF Capital Group and StepStone Group, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| BKF Capital Group | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| StepStone Group | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2.43 |
StepStone Group has a consensus target price of $68.36, indicating a potential upside of 6.01%. Given StepStone Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe StepStone Group is more favorable than BKF Capital Group.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares BKF Capital Group and StepStone Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| BKF Capital Group | $10.74 million | 1.10 | $450,000.00 | ($0.40) | -50.12 |
| StepStone Group | $711.63 million | 10.43 | $58.09 million | ($1.69) | -38.15 |
StepStone Group has higher revenue and earnings than BKF Capital Group. BKF Capital Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than StepStone Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
StepStone Group beats BKF Capital Group on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
About BKF Capital Group
BKF Capital Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, invests in publicly and privately owned businesses in the United States. The company also provides investment banking services, such as mergers and acquisitions advisory, and capital raising services to lower and middle-market companies. It also manufactures and markets data storage system products and power solutions under the Qualstar brand name. BKF Capital Group, Inc. was incorporated in 1954 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
About StepStone Group
StepStone Group Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct, fund of funds, secondary direct, and secondary indirect investments. For direct investment, it seeks to invest in private debt, venture debt, incubation, mezzanine, distressed/vulture, seed/startup, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, later stage, turnaround, growth capital, industry consolidation, recapitalization, buyout investments in mature and middle market companies. It prefers to invest in natural resources, technology, healthcare, services, materials, manufacturing, consumer durables, apparel, hotels, restaurants and leisure, media, retailing, power, utilities consumer staples, financials, telecommunication services, clean energy/renewables, transport, social, natural capital, infrastructure, corporate, real estate, credit and real asset. The firm invests globally with a focus on United States, North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, New Zealand, China, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia region. The firm invests between 5% and 40% in emerging markets. For fund of fund investment, it seeks to invest in private equity funds, venture capital funds, Special situation funds, Real estate funds, Infrastructure funds, mezzanine funds, and turnaround/distressed funds. It considers investments in both domestic and international funds. It also seeks to make co-investments and follow-on investments and considers partial interests in funds. StepStone Group Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices across North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
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