WHF Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

A technique commonly used by dividend investors to value dividend-issuing stocks is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM), which seeks to determine a fair share price based on the dividend provided by the company relative to a number of other company-specific factors. In the case of WHF, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a positive return of 158.35%. Digging deeper, the aspects of WhiteHorse Finance Inc's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• Compared to other US stocks that pay a dividend, WHF offers a dividend yield in the top 3.28% of stocks in our set.
• In comparison to other US listed dividend yielding stocks in the Financial Services sector, the expected return of 158.35%, based on the stock's current share price and target price based on a dividend discount model, is greater than 92.06% of the DDM-forecasted return of its its sector peers.
• Compared to all dividend issuing stocks in our set, WhiteHorse Finance Inc bears a discount rate, according to our calculations, lower than 92.06% of them (lower discount rates are generally perceived as positive, and a sign of lower risk).
• Amongst its dividend-issuing peers in the small-sized market cap category, WHF's beta -- a measure of volatility relative to the market at large -- is lower than merely 17.32% of them.

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