PTMN vs. GAIN, PNNT, TPVG, SCM, OFS, LRFC, ICMB, MATH, TURN, and SFES
Should you be buying Portman Ridge Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portman Ridge Finance include Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), OFS Capital (OFS), Logan Ridge Finance (LRFC), Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB), Metalpha Technology (MATH), 180 Degree Capital (TURN), and Safeguard Scientifics (SFES). These companies are all part of the "investors, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Portman Ridge Finance (NASDAQ:PTMN) and Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Portman Ridge Finance currently has a consensus price target of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 2.56%. Gladstone Investment has a consensus price target of $14.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.89%. Given Portman Ridge Finance's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Portman Ridge Finance is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
In the previous week, Portman Ridge Finance and Portman Ridge Finance both had 1 articles in the media. Portman Ridge Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Gladstone Investment's score of 0.31 indicating that Portman Ridge Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 97.71% compared to Portman Ridge Finance's net margin of 21.81%. Portman Ridge Finance's return on equity of 15.21% beat Gladstone Investment's return on equity.
Portman Ridge Finance has a beta of 0.93, suggesting that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.3, suggesting that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gladstone Investment received 329 more outperform votes than Portman Ridge Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.47% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 43.68% of users gave Portman Ridge Finance an outperform vote.
Gladstone Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Portman Ridge Finance. Gladstone Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Portman Ridge Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Portman Ridge Finance pays an annual dividend of $2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.2%. Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Portman Ridge Finance pays out 165.3% 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.
30.1% of Portman Ridge Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 2.2% of Portman Ridge Finance shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Gladstone Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Gladstone Investment beats Portman Ridge Finance on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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