BBDC vs. NOAH, BRDG, BSIG, ABL, PAX, FDUS, VINP, ALTI, DHIL, and VRTS
Should you be buying Barings BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings BDC include Noah (NOAH), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Abacus Life (ABL), Patria Investments (PAX), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), AlTi Global (ALTI), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), and Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Noah (NYSE:NOAH) and Barings BDC (NYSE:BBDC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.
Noah received 159 more outperform votes than Barings BDC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.52% of users gave Barings BDC an outperform vote while only 58.09% of users gave Noah an outperform vote.
42.7% of Noah shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Barings BDC shares are owned by institutional investors. 47.2% of Noah shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Barings BDC shares are owned by 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.
Noah has a beta of 0.94, meaning that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings BDC has a beta of 0.63, meaning that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Barings BDC has a net margin of 45.35% compared to Barings BDC's net margin of 33.36%. Noah's return on equity of 10.77% beat Barings BDC's return on equity.
In the previous week, Barings BDC had 6 more articles in the media than Noah. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Barings BDC and 1 mentions for Noah. Noah's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat Barings BDC's score of 0.22 indicating that Barings BDC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Noah pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Barings BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. Noah pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barings BDC pays out 84.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Noah has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Barings BDC has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Barings BDC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Noah currently has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 18.73%. Barings BDC has a consensus target price of $9.13, suggesting a potential downside of 7.55%. Given Barings BDC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Noah is more favorable than Barings BDC.
Noah has higher revenue and earnings than Barings BDC. Noah is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barings BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Noah beats Barings BDC on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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