This is a contrast between Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. (NYSE:AIF) and GAMCO Investors Inc. (NYSE:GBL) based on their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings and valuation. The two companies are Asset Management and they also compete with each other.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc.	28.84M	7.45	N/A	1.09	13.64
GAMCO Investors Inc.	341.46M	1.64	117.20M	4.07	5.10

Table 1 showcases the top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. and GAMCO Investors Inc. GAMCO Investors Inc. seems to has higher revenue and earnings compared to Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. Company that presently has a higher P/E ratio means that it is the more expensive of the two businesses. Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. has been trading at a higher P/E ratio than GAMCO Investors Inc., which means that it is at the moment the more expensive of the two companies.

Profitability

Table 2 demonstrates the return on equity, net margins and return on assets of Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. and GAMCO Investors Inc.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc.	0.00%	0%	0%
GAMCO Investors Inc.	34.32%	-157.4%	70.6%

Dividends

Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. shareholders receive an annual dividend of $1.24 per share which is subject to 8.37% dividend yield. GAMCO Investors Inc. offers an annual dividend of $0.08 per share, bundled with 0.41% dividend yield.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

Institutional investors owned 58.33% of Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. shares and 69.1% of GAMCO Investors Inc. shares. About 0.38% of Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc.’s share are owned by insiders. Competitively, insiders own roughly 14.02% of GAMCO Investors Inc.’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)
Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc.	0.41%	1.72%	2.08%	-4.42%	-4.6%	7.48%
GAMCO Investors Inc.	1.12%	4.11%	-3.17%	-18.77%	-22.93%	22.97%

For the past year Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. was less bullish than GAMCO Investors Inc.

Summary

GAMCO Investors Inc. beats Apollo Tactical Income Fund Inc. on 8 of the 13 factors.

GAMCO Investors, Inc. is a publicly owned holding investment manager. The firm also provides wealth management, investment advisory, institutional research, brokerage, dealer, underwriting, and distribution services to its clients. It provides its services to individuals including high net worth individuals, corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, foundations, endowments, jointly trust plans, municipalities, and investment companies. The firm, through its subsidiaries, manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also launches equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds and manages equity mutual funds for its clients. Through its subsidiaries, the firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in value stocks of companies. The firm employs fundamental analysis with a focus on bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. It conducts in-house research to make its investments. The firm was founded in 1976 and is based in Rye, New York with additional offices in Greenwich, Connecticut; Bannockburn, Illinois; and Tokyo, Japan. GAMCO Investors, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of GGCP, Inc.