Eagle Point Credit (ECC) Competitors

Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) and Eagle Point Credit (NYSE:ECC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in CGBD or ECC?

24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.5% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts prefer CGBD or ECC?

Carlyle Secured Lending presently has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential downside of 8.99%. Eagle Point Credit has a consensus target price of $11.00, suggesting a potential upside of 7.37%. Given Carlyle Secured Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eagle Point Credit is more favorable than Carlyle Secured Lending.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Carlyle Secured Lending	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33
Eagle Point Credit	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CGBD or ECC?

Eagle Point Credit received 96 more outperform votes than Carlyle Secured Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.86% of users gave Eagle Point Credit an outperform vote while only 57.72% of users gave Carlyle Secured Lending an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Carlyle Secured Lending	Outperform Votes 187 57.72%	Underperform Votes 137 42.28%
Eagle Point Credit	Outperform Votes 283 68.86%	Underperform Votes 128 31.14%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, CGBD or ECC?

Eagle Point Credit has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carlyle Secured Lending. Eagle Point Credit is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carlyle Secured Lending, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Carlyle Secured Lending	$241.63M	3.70	$92.28M	$1.69	10.40
Eagle Point Credit	$139.07M	5.67	$118.75M	$1.78	5.76

Is CGBD or ECC a better dividend stock?

Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Eagle Point Credit pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.4%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays out 94.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eagle Point Credit pays out 94.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Eagle Point Credit is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is CGBD or ECC more profitable?

Eagle Point Credit has a net margin of 84.05% compared to Eagle Point Credit's net margin of 38.19%. Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity of 14.27% beat Eagle Point Credit's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Carlyle Secured Lending	38.19%	12.80%	5.54%
Eagle Point Credit	84.05%	14.27%	10.23%

Does the media prefer CGBD or ECC?

In the previous week, Carlyle Secured Lending had 5 more articles in the media than Eagle Point Credit. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending and 0 mentions for Eagle Point Credit. Carlyle Secured Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.96 beat Eagle Point Credit's score of 0.86 indicating that Eagle Point Credit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Carlyle Secured Lending	Positive
Eagle Point Credit	Very Positive

Which has more volatility and risk, CGBD or ECC?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Point Credit has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Eagle Point Credit beats Carlyle Secured Lending on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.