This is therefore a comparing of the risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation in Hennessy Advisors Inc. (NASDAQ:HNNA) and Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation (NASDAQ:OCSI). The two are both Asset Management companies that compete with one another.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hennessy Advisors Inc.	52.42M	1.58	15.49M	2.49	4.21
Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation	48.20M	5.06	5.57M	0.19	44.07

Table 1 highlights Hennessy Advisors Inc. and Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation. Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation has lower revenue and earnings than Hennessy Advisors Inc. The company that Currently has a lower P/E ratio is considered the more affordable of the two businesses. Hennessy Advisors Inc. is presently more affordable than Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation, because it’s trading at a lower P/E ratio.

Profitability

Table 2 demonstrates the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of Hennessy Advisors Inc. and Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Hennessy Advisors Inc.	29.55%	22.4%	14.6%
Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation	11.56%	0%	0%

Dividends

$0.41 per share with a dividend yield of 3.86% is the annual dividend that Hennessy Advisors Inc. pay. On the other side, $0.6 per share with a dividend yield of 7.14% for Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

The shares of both Hennessy Advisors Inc. and Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation are owned by institutional investors at 17.4% and 41.22% respectively. 40.8% are Hennessy Advisors Inc.’s share held by insiders. On the other hand, insiders held about 19.27% of Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation’s shares.

Performance

Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Hennessy Advisors Inc.	-0.1%	-9.02%	-2.96%	-28.08%	-41.95%	4.8%
Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation	-3.25%	-2.69%	-0.24%	-4.36%	8.04%	7.48%

For the past year Hennessy Advisors Inc.’s stock price has smaller growth than Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation.

Summary

Hennessy Advisors Inc. beats on 10 of the 15 factors Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation.

Hennessy Advisors, Inc. is publicly owned investment manager. It provides its services to Hennessy Funds and investment companies. The firm launches and manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth stocks of companies. It conducts in-house research to make its investments. Hennessy Advisors, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Novato, California with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.