PNNT vs. GAIN, SCM, OFS, CSWC, TPVG, PTMN, NMFC, HAFC, GLAD, and VCV
Should you be buying PennantPark Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennantPark Investment include Gladstone Investment (GAIN), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), OFS Capital (OFS), Capital Southwest (CSWC), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Hanmi Financial (HAFC), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), and Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust (VCV). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) and PennantPark Investment (NASDAQ:PNNT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, risk and analyst recommendations.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 80.68% compared to Gladstone Investment's net margin of 32.55%. Gladstone Investment's return on equity of 14.17% beat PennantPark Investment's return on equity.
Gladstone Investment received 3 more outperform votes than PennantPark Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.68% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 58.15% of users gave PennantPark Investment an outperform vote.
Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. PennantPark Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. Gladstone Investment pays out 48.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PennantPark Investment pays out 113.5% 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 Investment has a consensus target price of $6.94, indicating a potential downside of 3.11%. Given Gladstone Investment's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PennantPark Investment is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
In the previous week, PennantPark Investment had 3 more articles in the media than Gladstone Investment. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for PennantPark Investment and 3 mentions for Gladstone Investment. PennantPark Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Gladstone Investment's score of 0.54 indicating that Gladstone Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gladstone Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PennantPark Investment. Gladstone Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PennantPark Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.6% of PennantPark Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Gladstone Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of PennantPark Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennantPark Investment has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PennantPark Investment beats Gladstone Investment on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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