PFLT vs. GAIN, PNNT, TPVG, SCM, CSWC, PTMN, NMFC, TSLX, PSEC, and PRA
Should you be buying PennantPark Floating Rate Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital include Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), Capital Southwest (CSWC), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), Prospect Capital (PSEC), and ProAssurance (PRA). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NASDAQ:PFLT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and profitability.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential upside of 2.09%. Given Gladstone Investment's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a beta of 1.68, meaning that its share price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.
11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.8% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 80.68% compared to Gladstone Investment's net margin of 43.40%. Gladstone Investment's return on equity of 11.83% beat PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Gladstone Investment. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for PennantPark Floating Rate Capital and 3 mentions for Gladstone Investment. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Gladstone Investment's score of 0.46 indicating that Gladstone Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Gladstone Investment. Gladstone Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PennantPark Floating Rate Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Gladstone Investment pays out 48.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays out 109.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Gladstone Investment received 116 more outperform votes than PennantPark Floating Rate Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.68% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 50.40% of users gave PennantPark Floating Rate Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital beats Gladstone Investment on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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