PSBD vs. PRAA, PLBC, ECPG, HBNC, IBCP, ALTI, BTO, BFST, VKQ, and EZPW
Should you be buying Palmer Square Capital BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Palmer Square Capital BDC include PRA Group (PRAA), Plumas Bancorp (PLBC), Encore Capital Group (ECPG), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Independent Bank (IBCP), AlTi Global (ALTI), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), Business First Bancshares (BFST), Invesco Municipal Trust (VKQ), and EZCORP (EZPW). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
PRA Group (NASDAQ:PRAA) and Palmer Square Capital BDC (NYSE:PSBD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and valuation.
Palmer Square Capital BDC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PRA Group.
PRA Group currently has a consensus target price of $33.00, suggesting a potential upside of 49.39%. Palmer Square Capital BDC has a consensus target price of $16.93, suggesting a potential upside of 2.54%. Given Palmer Square Capital BDC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe PRA Group is more favorable than Palmer Square Capital BDC.
Palmer Square Capital BDC has a net margin of 84.94% compared to Palmer Square Capital BDC's net margin of -2.37%. PRA Group's return on equity of 18.90% beat Palmer Square Capital BDC's return on equity.
97.2% of PRA Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.5% of Palmer Square Capital BDC shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of PRA Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PRA Group received 240 more outperform votes than Palmer Square Capital BDC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 57.14% of users gave Palmer Square Capital BDC an outperform vote while only 56.35% of users gave PRA Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PRA Group had 7 more articles in the media than Palmer Square Capital BDC. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for PRA Group and 2 mentions for Palmer Square Capital BDC. Palmer Square Capital BDC's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat PRA Group's score of 0.51 indicating that PRA Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
PRA Group beats Palmer Square Capital BDC on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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