PSEC vs. GBDC, CSWC, TSLX, NMFC, PFLT, CVBF, DEI, LGIH, WAFD, and SNEX
Should you be buying Prospect Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prospect Capital include Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Capital Southwest (CSWC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), CVB Financial (CVBF), Douglas Emmett (DEI), LGI Homes (LGIH), WaFd (WAFD), and StoneX Group (SNEX). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) and Golub Capital BDC (NASDAQ:GBDC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
Prospect Capital currently has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential downside of 12.43%. Golub Capital BDC has a consensus price target of $16.40, indicating a potential downside of 0.06%. Given Golub Capital BDC's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Golub Capital BDC is more favorable than Prospect Capital.
Golub Capital BDC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Prospect Capital. Golub Capital BDC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prospect Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Golub Capital BDC has a net margin of 53.05% compared to Prospect Capital's net margin of 25.13%. Prospect Capital's return on equity of 13.32% beat Golub Capital BDC's return on equity.
9.1% of Prospect Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of Golub Capital BDC shares are held by institutional investors. 26.7% of Prospect Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Golub Capital BDC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Prospect Capital received 19 more outperform votes than Golub Capital BDC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.50% of users gave Golub Capital BDC an outperform vote while only 52.21% of users gave Prospect Capital an outperform vote.
Prospect Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.7%. Golub Capital BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Prospect Capital pays out 211.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Golub Capital BDC pays out 76.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Golub Capital BDC had 3 more articles in the media than Prospect Capital. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Golub Capital BDC and 5 mentions for Prospect Capital. Prospect Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Golub Capital BDC's score of 0.35 indicating that Prospect Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Prospect Capital has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Golub Capital BDC has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Golub Capital BDC beats Prospect Capital on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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