We are contrasting RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund Inc. (NYSE:OPP) and Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (NYSE:JEF) on their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation. They both are Asset Management companies, competing one another.

Valuation & Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund Inc.	N/A	0.00	N/A	0.00	0.00
Jefferies Financial Group Inc.	5.22B	1.14	265.34M	1.26	15.92

Table 1 shows the gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation for RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund Inc. and Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

Profitability

Table 2 hightlights the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of the two companies.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund Inc.	0.00%	0%	0%
Jefferies Financial Group Inc.	5.08%	0%	0%

Dividends

On the other side Jefferies Financial Group Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.49 per share. It’s dividend yield is 2.44%. No dividend is paid out by RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund Inc.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund Inc. and Jefferies Financial Group Inc. has shares held by institutional investors as follows: 27.11% and 81.6%. Comparatively, Jefferies Financial Group Inc. has 7.9% of it’s share held by insiders.

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)
RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund Inc.	-1.43%	-2.59%	3.7%	-5.49%	-8.32%	1.66%
Jefferies Financial Group Inc.	-1.28%	-3.75%	-9%	-15.73%	-15.27%	15.38%

For the past year RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund Inc. has weaker performance than Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

Summary

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. beats on 8 of the 8 factors RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund Inc.

RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund, Inc. is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC. The fund is co-managed by DoubleLine Capital LP. It invests in fixed income markets. The fund seeks to benchmark the performance of its portfolio against the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. RiverNorth/DoubleLine Strategic Opportunity Fund, Inc. was formed on December 30, 2010 and is domiciled in the United States.

Jefferies Financial Group Inc., a financial services company, offers a range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, and wealth management in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. It engages in the debt capital market, equity capital market, merger and acquisition, private capital advisory, and restructuring and recapitalization businesses. The company also offers cash equities; electronic trading solutions, such as global algorithmic and portfolio trading solutions; equity derivatives, such as U.S. equity options, U.S. exchange-traded funds, and Europe equity derivatives, as well as trades in a range of convertible securities from large investment-grade issues to small private transactions; access to investors and logistics; and prime services. In addition, it provides fixed income products, such as government securities, mortgage and asset backed securities, corporate credits, sovereign and corporate fixed income securities, municipal securities, debt solutions, and foreign exchange. Further, the company offers asset management services; and wealth management services, such as investment advisory, financial planning, family office and institutional consulting, executive, and lending solutions. The company was formerly known as Leucadia National Corporation and changed its name to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. in May 2018. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. was founded in 1968 and is based in New York, New York.