PFLT vs. GAIN, PNNT, CSWC, TPVG, SCM, NMFC, TSLX, PSEC, GBDC, and PFC
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), Capital Southwest (CSWC), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), Prospect Capital (PSEC), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), and Premier Financial (PFC). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NASDAQ:PFLT) and Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, risk and community ranking.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays out 83.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Gladstone Investment pays out 38.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital currently has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential upside of 3.80%. Gladstone Investment has a consensus target price of $14.00, suggesting a potential upside of 1.38%. Given PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
Gladstone Investment received 116 more outperform votes than PennantPark Floating Rate Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.47% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 50.40% of users gave PennantPark Floating Rate Capital an outperform vote.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a beta of 1.66, indicating that its share price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital both had 4 articles in the media. Gladstone Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's score of 0.28 indicating that Gladstone Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 97.71% compared to PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's net margin of 55.99%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's return on equity of 11.44% beat Gladstone Investment's return on equity.
19.8% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Gladstone Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. 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.
Summary
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital and Gladstone Investment tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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