CSWC vs. GAIN, PNNT, SCM, PSEC, GBDC, NMFC, TPVG, PFS, QQQX, and UMH
Should you be buying Capital Southwest stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Capital Southwest include Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), Prospect Capital (PSEC), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX), and UMH Properties (UMH). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) and Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
In the previous week, Capital Southwest and Capital Southwest both had 4 articles in the media. Capital Southwest's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Gladstone Investment's score of 0.61 indicating that Capital Southwest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gladstone Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Capital Southwest. Gladstone Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Southwest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Capital Southwest pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Capital Southwest pays out 97.0% 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 48.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Capital Southwest has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% 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.
23.4% of Capital Southwest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of Capital Southwest 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, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gladstone Investment received 127 more outperform votes than Capital Southwest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.18% of users gave Capital Southwest an outperform vote while only 61.68% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 80.68% compared to Capital Southwest's net margin of 52.16%. Capital Southwest's return on equity of 15.82% beat Gladstone Investment's return on equity.
Capital Southwest currently has a consensus price target of $25.50, suggesting a potential downside of 2.56%. Given Capital Southwest's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Capital Southwest is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
Summary
Capital Southwest beats Gladstone Investment on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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