GBDC vs. PSEC, CSWC, TSLX, NMFC, FHI, AX, HASI, FBP, SITC, and BANF
Should you be buying Golub Capital BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Golub Capital BDC include Prospect Capital (PSEC), Capital Southwest (CSWC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Federated Hermes (FHI), Axos Financial (AX), Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), First BanCorp. (FBP), SITE Centers (SITC), and BancFirst (BANF). 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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Golub Capital BDC has a net margin of 48.94% compared to Golub Capital BDC's net margin of -1.47%. Golub Capital BDC's return on equity of 13.48% beat Prospect Capital's return on equity.
Prospect Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Golub Capital BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Prospect Capital pays out -360.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Golub Capital BDC pays out 85.7% 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 has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Prospect Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Golub Capital BDC had 2 more articles in the media than Prospect Capital. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Golub Capital BDC and 4 mentions for Prospect Capital. Golub Capital BDC's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Prospect Capital's score of 0.52 indicating that Prospect Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Golub Capital BDC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Prospect Capital. Prospect Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Golub Capital BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
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 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
9.1% of Prospect Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of Golub Capital BDC shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.7% of Prospect Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Golub Capital BDC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Prospect Capital currently has a consensus price target of $5.75, indicating a potential upside of 9.52%. Golub Capital BDC has a consensus price target of $16.40, indicating a potential downside of 3.42%. Given Golub Capital BDC's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Prospect Capital is more favorable than Golub Capital BDC.
Prospect Capital received 19 more outperform votes than Golub Capital BDC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 56.60% of users gave Golub Capital BDC an outperform vote while only 52.30% of users gave Prospect Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Golub Capital BDC beats Prospect Capital on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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