As Asset Management businesses, Ameriprise Financial Inc. (NYSE:AMP) and Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVC), are affected by compare. This especially applies to their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and valuation.

Earnings & Valuation

In table 1 we can see Ameriprise Financial Inc. and Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc.’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation. Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc. has lower revenue and earnings than Ameriprise Financial Inc. When company has higher price-to-earnings means it is more expensive than its counterpart presently. Ameriprise Financial Inc.’s presently higher price-to-earnings ratio means it is more expensive than Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc.

Profitability

Table 2 represents Ameriprise Financial Inc. (NYSE:AMP) and Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVC)’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

Dividends

The annual dividend that Ameriprise Financial Inc. pay is $3.6 per share with a dividend yield of 2.51%. On the other side Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc. pays an annual dividend of $5.86 per share. It’s dividend yield is 57.45%.

Analyst Recommendations

Recommendations and Ratings for Ameriprise Financial Inc. and Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc. can be find in next table.

Ameriprise Financial Inc.’s upside potential is 11.41% at a $154 consensus target price.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

Ameriprise Financial Inc. and Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc. has shares owned by institutional investors as follows: 83.9% and 4.64%. Insiders owned roughly 0.4% of Ameriprise Financial Inc.’s shares. Competitively, insiders own roughly 9.64% of Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc.’s shares.

Performance

In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

For the past year Ameriprise Financial Inc. has stronger performance than Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc.

Summary

Ameriprise Financial Inc. beats on 11 of the 15 factors Firsthand Technology Value Fund Inc.

Ameriprise Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial products and services to individual and institutional clients in the United States and internationally. The companyÂ’s Advice & Wealth Management segment provides financial planning and advice, as well as full-service brokerage services primarily to retail clients through its advisors. Its Asset Management segment offers investment management and advice, and investment products to retail, high net worth, and institutional clients through unaffiliated third party financial institutions and institutional sales force. This segmentÂ’s products include U.S. mutual funds and their non-U.S. equivalents, exchange-traded funds, variable product funds underlying insurance, and annuity separate accounts; and institutional asset management products, such as traditional asset classes, separately managed accounts, individually managed accounts, collateralized loan obligations, hedge funds, collective funds, and property funds. The companyÂ’s Annuities segment provides variable and fixed annuity products to individual clients through affiliated and unaffiliated advisors, and financial institutions. Its Protection segment offers various products to address the protection and risk management needs of retail clients, including life, disability income, and property casualty insurance through advisors and affinity relationships. The company was formerly known as American Express Financial Corporation and changed its name to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. in September 2005. Ameriprise Financial, Inc. was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.