SLRC vs. HRZN, WHF, MQY, HQH, MYI, PHK, MFIC, NXP, MUC, and VMO
Should you be buying SLR Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SLR Investment include Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), WhiteHorse Finance (WHF), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), and Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO).
Horizon Technology Finance (NASDAQ:HRZN) and SLR Investment (NASDAQ:SLRC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
SLR Investment received 85 more outperform votes than Horizon Technology Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.32% of users gave SLR Investment an outperform vote while only 54.51% of users gave Horizon Technology Finance an outperform vote.
Horizon Technology Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. SLR Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.6%. Horizon Technology Finance pays out -269.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SLR Investment pays out 117.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SLR Investment has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Horizon Technology Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Horizon Technology Finance has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SLR Investment has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Horizon Technology Finance presently has a consensus target price of $10.38, indicating a potential downside of 11.63%. SLR Investment has a consensus target price of $14.25, indicating a potential downside of 8.12%. Given Horizon Technology Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SLR Investment is more favorable than Horizon Technology Finance.
SLR Investment has a net margin of 33.31% compared to SLR Investment's net margin of -15.14%. SLR Investment's return on equity of 18.24% beat Horizon Technology Finance's return on equity.
4.9% of Horizon Technology Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.3% of SLR Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of Horizon Technology Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of SLR Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SLR Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Horizon Technology Finance. Horizon Technology Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SLR Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Horizon Technology Finance had 7 more articles in the media than SLR Investment. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Horizon Technology Finance and 1 mentions for SLR Investment. SLR Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Horizon Technology Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that Horizon Technology Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SLR Investment beats Horizon Technology Finance on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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