Since 180 Degree Capital Corp. (NASDAQ:TURN) and KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE:KKR) are part of the Asset Management industry, they are influenced by compare. The influences particularly affect the dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation of both companies.

Valuation & Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
180 Degree Capital Corp.	1.16M	51.85	14.45M	0.46	4.12
KKR & Co. Inc.	6.60B	2.97	1.66B	3.24	6.52

Table 1 demonstrates 180 Degree Capital Corp. and KKR & Co. Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation. KKR & Co. Inc. is observed to has higher revenue and earnings than 180 Degree Capital Corp. Company that presently has a lower price-to-earnings ratio means that it is the more affordable of the two businesses. 180 Degree Capital Corp.’s current price-to-earnings ratio is lower than that of KKR & Co. Inc., which means that it is the affordable of the two.

Profitability

Table 2 provides us the net margins, return on equity and return on assets of both businesses.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
180 Degree Capital Corp.	1,245.69%	18.1%	17.5%
KKR & Co. Inc.	25.15%	22.1%	3.4%

Volatility & Risk

180 Degree Capital Corp. has a 0.48 beta, while its volatility is 52.00%, thus making it less volatile than S&P 500. Competitively, KKR & Co. Inc.’s 59.00% volatility makes it more volatile than S&P 500, because of the 1.59 beta.

Dividends

Meanwhile, KKR & Co. Inc.’s annual dividend is $0.63 per share and it also boasts of a 2.83% dividend yield. 180 Degree Capital Corp. does not offer a dividend.

Analyst Ratings

Ratings and Recommendations for 180 Degree Capital Corp. and KKR & Co. Inc. can be find in next table.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
180 Degree Capital Corp.	0	0	0	0.00
KKR & Co. Inc.	0	2	2	2.50

Competitively KKR & Co. Inc. has an average target price of $27, with potential upside of 14.99%.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

Institutional investors owned 33.5% of 180 Degree Capital Corp. shares and 78% of KKR & Co. Inc. shares. Insiders owned roughly 2.7% of 180 Degree Capital Corp.’s shares. Competitively, 0.5% are KKR & Co. Inc.’s share owned by insiders.

Performance

Here are the Week, Month, Quarter, Half Year, Year and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
180 Degree Capital Corp.	-2.05%	-7.28%	-9.91%	-15.86%	-4.26%	-3.05%
KKR & Co. Inc.	-7.9%	-14.67%	-19.89%	-9.24%	7.38%	0.24%

For the past year 180 Degree Capital Corp. had bearish trend while KKR & Co. Inc. had bullish trend.

Summary

On 11 of the 14 factors KKR & Co. Inc. beats 180 Degree Capital Corp.

180 Degree Capital Corp. is a business development company specializing in early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in tiny technology including microsystems and transformative nanotechnology companies and applications in the cleantech, biotechnology, energy, healthcare, and electronic sectors. It prefers to invest in biology innovation, where intersecting with innovations in areas such as electronics, physics, materials science, chemistry, information technology, engineering and mathematics. It seeks companies which employ or intend to employ technology that is at the microscale or smaller and if the employment of that technology is material to its business plan. The firm may make follow-on investments and seeks to co-invest. It prefers to hold membership on boards of directors or serve as observers to the boards of directors on its portfolio companies. 180 Degree Capital Corp. was founded in August 1981 and is based in Montclair, New Jersey with addition office in Los Angeles, California.

KKR & Co. L.P. is a private equity and real estate investment firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments in fintech sector. It specializes in acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, credit special situations, growth equity, mature, mezzanine, distressed, turnaround, and middle market investments. The firm considers investments in all industries with a focus on software, security, semiconductors, consumer electronics, internet of things (iot), internet, information services, information technology infrastructure, network and cyber security architecture, engineering and operations, content, technology and hardware, energy and infrastructure, real estate, services industry with a focus on business services, intelligence, industry-leading franchises and companies in natural resource, containers and packaging, agriculture, airports, ports, forestry, electric utilities, textiles, apparel and luxury goods, household durables, digital media, insurance, brokerage houses, non-durable goods distribution, supermarket retailing, grocery stores, food, beverage, and tobacco, hospitals, entertainment venues and production companies, publishing, printing services, capital goods, financial services, specialized finance, pipelines, and renewable energy. In energy and infrastructure, it focuses on the Upstream Oil and Gas and Equipment, minerals and royalties and Services verticals. In real estate, the firm seeks to invest in private and public real estate securities including property-level equity, debt and special situations transactions and businesses with significant real estate holdings, and oil and natural gas properties. The firm also invests in asset services sector that encompasses a broad array of B2B, B2C and B2G services verticals including asset-based, transport, logistics, leisure/hospitality, resource and utility support, infra-like, mission-critical, and environmental services. Within Americas, the firm prefers to invest in consumer products; chemicals, metals and mining; energy and natural resources; financial services; healthcare; industrials; media and communications; retail; and technology. Within Europe, the firm invests in consumer and retail; energy; financial services; health care; industrials and chemicals; media and digital; and telecom and technologies. Within Asia, it invests in consumer products; energy and resources; financial services; healthcare; industrials; logistics; media and telecom; retail; real estate; and technology. The firm seeks to invest in mid to high-end residential developments, but can invest in other projects throughout Mainland China through outright ownership, joint ventures, and merger. It invests globally with a focus on Australia, emerging and developed Asia, Middle East and Africa, Nordic, Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Caribbean, Mexico, South America, North America, Brazil, Latin America, Korea with a focus on South Korea, and United States of America. In the United States and Europe, the firm focuses on buyouts of large, publicly traded companies. It seeks to invest $30 million to $717 million in companies with enterprise values between $500 million to $2389 million. The firm prefers to invest in a range of debt and public equity investing and may co-invest. It seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies and a controlling ownership of a company or a strategic minority positions. The firm may acquire majority and minority equity interests, particularly when making private equity investments in Asia or sponsoring investments as part of a large investor consortium. The firm typically holds its investment for a period of five to seven years and more and exits through initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and sales to strategic buyers. KKR & Co. L.P. was founded in 1976 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.