KCAP vs. AMTB, CHCT, FIP, FMBH, MYI, BRKL, ABL, FBMS, AMAL, and RMR
Should you be buying Portman Ridge Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portman Ridge Finance include Amerant Bancorp (AMTB), Community Healthcare Trust (CHCT), FTAI Infrastructure (FIP), First Mid Bancshares (FMBH), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Abacus Life (ABL), First Bancshares (FBMS), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), and The RMR Group (RMR). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Amerant Bancorp (NASDAQ:AMTB) and Portman Ridge Finance (NASDAQ:KCAP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Amerant Bancorp has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Portman Ridge Finance has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Amerant Bancorp currently has a consensus target price of $26.25, suggesting a potential upside of 16.77%. Given Portman Ridge Finance's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Amerant Bancorp is more favorable than Portman Ridge Finance.
Amerant Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than Portman Ridge Finance. Amerant Bancorp 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.
In the previous week, Amerant Bancorp had 7 more articles in the media than Portman Ridge Finance. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Amerant Bancorp and 0 mentions for Portman Ridge Finance. Amerant Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Portman Ridge Finance's score of -0.24 indicating that Portman Ridge Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Portman Ridge Finance received 168 more outperform votes than Amerant Bancorp when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.79% of users gave Portman Ridge Finance an outperform vote while only 47.06% of users gave Amerant Bancorp an outperform vote.
Amerant Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Portman Ridge Finance pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Amerant Bancorp pays out 52.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Portman Ridge Finance pays out 148.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Amerant Bancorp has a net margin of 5.11% compared to Amerant Bancorp's net margin of -35.34%. Portman Ridge Finance's return on equity of 7.68% beat Amerant Bancorp's return on equity.
42.1% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.6% of Portman Ridge Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.5% of Amerant Bancorp shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of Portman Ridge Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Amerant Bancorp beats Portman Ridge Finance on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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