Compare Stocks: SPMC, FDUS, PFLT, and NMFC

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Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
FDUS Fidus Investment	$19.70	$19.67	$16.86 ▼ $21.67	$747.69M	0.67	374,500 shs	250,309 shs
NMFC New Mountain Finance	$7.54	$7.25	$6.73 ▼ $10.71	$712.15M	0.55	493,258 shs	387,215 shs
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	$7.39	$7.26	$6.83 ▼ $10.30	$733.24M	0.76	941,674 shs	749,054 shs
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	$9.55 +0.3%	$9.99	$8.36 ▼ $18.54	$195.78M	1.15	35,028 shs	17,105 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
FDUS Fidus Investment	0.00%	0.00%	-0.20%	+3.52%	-8.50%
NMFC New Mountain Finance	0.00%	-0.26%	+9.43%	-6.91%	-29.27%
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	0.00%	0.00%	+6.87%	-11.23%	+738,999,900.00%
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	0.00%	+5.18%	-7.33%	-17.27%	-46.41%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
FDUS Fidus Investment	$19.70	$19.67	$16.86 ▼ $21.67	$747.69M	0.67	374,500 shs	250,309 shs
NMFC New Mountain Finance	$7.54	$7.25	$6.73 ▼ $10.71	$712.15M	0.55	493,258 shs	387,215 shs
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	$7.39	$7.26	$6.83 ▼ $10.30	$733.24M	0.76	941,674 shs	749,054 shs
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	$9.55 +0.3%	$9.99	$8.36 ▼ $18.54	$195.78M	1.15	35,028 shs	17,105 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
FDUS Fidus Investment	0.00%	0.00%	-0.20%	+3.52%	-8.50%
NMFC New Mountain Finance	0.00%	-0.26%	+9.43%	-6.91%	-29.27%
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	0.00%	0.00%	+6.87%	-11.23%	+738,999,900.00%
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	0.00%	+5.18%	-7.33%	-17.27%	-46.41%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
FDUS Fidus Investment	2.00	Hold	$19.50	-1.02% Downside
NMFC New Mountain Finance	1.67	Reduce	$8.60	14.06% Upside
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	2.50	Moderate Buy	$9.80	32.61% Upside
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	2.00	Hold	$15.13	58.38% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest SPMC, FDUS, PFLT, and NMFC Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/26/2026	SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Hold ➝ Strong Sell
8/13/2026	NMFC New Mountain Finance	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Sell (D+)
8/12/2026	SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	B. Riley Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Neutral	$10.50 ➝ $10.00
8/5/2026	PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold (C-)
8/5/2026	NMFC New Mountain Finance	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Equal Weight	$8.00 ➝ $7.50
7/28/2026	SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong Sell ➝ Hold
7/20/2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Market Perform	$19.50
7/20/2026	NMFC New Mountain Finance	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Market Perform	$9.00 ➝ $8.00
7/20/2026	PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong Sell ➝ Hold
7/19/2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Moderate Buy ➝ Hold
6/17/2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold (C)

(Data available from 8/31/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
FDUS Fidus Investment	$94.05M	7.95	$2.16 per share	9.14	$20.37 per share	0.97
NMFC New Mountain Finance	$327.08M	2.18	$2.90 per share	2.60	$11.52 per share	0.65
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	$261.43M	2.80	$1.35 per share	5.47	$10.83 per share	0.68
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	$72.51M	2.70	N/A	N/A	N/A	∞

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
FDUS Fidus Investment	$82.40M	$2.09	9.43	9.80	N/A	45.36%	10.87%	5.64%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)
NMFC New Mountain Finance	$16.49M	-$0.47	N/A	7.05	N/A	-16.78%	10.94%	4.58%	11/2/2026 (Estimated)
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	$66.36M	$0.51	14.49	6.84	N/A	18.53%	10.24%	3.88%	N/A
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	N/A	-$5.78	N/A	9.01	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	11/12/2026 (Estimated)

Latest SPMC, FDUS, PFLT, and NMFC Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/12/2026	Q1 26/27	SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	$0.30	$0.24	-$0.06	$0.83	$14.18 million	$12.42 million
8/10/2026	Q3 2026	PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	$0.27	$0.26	-$0.01	$0.08	N/A	$22.73 million
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	$0.5040	$0.50	-$0.0040	$0.53	$42.37 million	$32.56 million
8/3/2026	Q2 2026	NMFC New Mountain Finance	$0.2621	$0.26	-$0.0021	$0.18	$62.79 million	$39.02 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
FDUS Fidus Investment	$1.72	8.73%	+10.08%	82.30%	N/A
NMFC New Mountain Finance	$1.00	13.26%	+0.64%	N/A	N/A
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	$0.96	12.99%	+1.53%	188.24%	N/A
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	$2.40	25.13%	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest SPMC, FDUS, PFLT, and NMFC Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
8/12/2026	SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	monthly	$0.13	15.85%	12/15/2026	12/15/2026	12/31/2026
8/12/2026	SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	monthly	$0.13	15.85%	11/13/2026	11/13/2026	11/30/2026
8/12/2026	SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	monthly	$0.13	15.85%	10/15/2026	10/15/2026	10/30/2026
7/21/2026	NMFC New Mountain Finance	quarterly	$0.25	13.83%	9/16/2026	9/16/2026	9/30/2026
8/3/2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	quarterly	$0.43	8.36%	9/15/2026	9/15/2026	9/29/2026
8/4/2026	PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	monthly	$0.08	13.03%	8/14/2026	8/14/2026	9/1/2026
7/2/2026	PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	special	$0.0033	0.55%	7/15/2026	7/15/2026	8/3/2026
6/2/2026	PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	monthly	$0.0833	12.36%	6/15/2026	6/15/2026	7/1/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
FDUS Fidus Investment	N/A	0.09	0.09
NMFC New Mountain Finance	1.30	3.66	3.66
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	0.94	0.19	0.19
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	N/A	N/A	N/A

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
FDUS Fidus Investment	28.14%
NMFC New Mountain Finance	32.08%
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	19.77%
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	N/A

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
FDUS Fidus Investment	0.90%
NMFC New Mountain Finance	14.90%
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	1.00%
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	0.89%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
FDUS Fidus Investment	N/A	37.95 million	37.61 million	Optionable
NMFC New Mountain Finance	N/A	94.45 million	80.38 million	Optionable
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	658	99.22 million	98.23 million	N/A
SPMC Sound Point Meridian Capital	N/A	20.50 million	20.32 million	N/A

SPMC, FDUS, PFLT, and NMFC Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Sound Point Meridian Capital, Inc. (NYSE:SPMC) Short Interest Update

August 29 at 9:59 AM | marketbeat.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital (NYSE:SPMC) Director Purchases 2,400 Shares

August 29 at 7:06 AM | insidertrades.com

Sound Point Meridian Director Makes Bold Moves With Fresh Stock Shuffle

August 28 at 10:11 PM | tipranks.com

Insider Buying: Sound Point Meridian Capital (NYSE:SPMC) Director Acquires $22,296.00 in Stock

August 28 at 5:21 PM | marketbeat.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital (NYSE:SPMC) Director Matthew Forstenhausler Sells 2,427 Shares

August 28 at 5:21 PM | marketbeat.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital (NYSE:SPMC) Stock Rating Lowered by Zacks Research

August 28 at 7:29 AM | marketbeat.com

South Pacific Metals Extends the Mineralized Structures at Megabe to More than 300 Metres of Confirmed Strike Length; Structures Open Along Strike and at Depth

August 24, 2026 | newsfilecorp.comN

Sound Point Meridian Capital Navigates Unprecedented Market Conditions with Prudence and Vision

August 12, 2026 | news.themarketisopen.comN

Sound Point Meridian Capital, Inc. (NYSE:SPMC) Plans $0.13 Monthly Dividend

August 12, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Sound Point Meridian signals $0.13 monthly distribution and 6-month fee waiver through December 2026

August 12, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital Inc (SPMC) Q1 2027 Earnings Call Transcript

August 12, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital Q1 Earnings Call Highlights

August 12, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital (NYSE:SPMC) Releases Quarterly Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.06 EPS

August 12, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital, Inc. (SPMC) Lags Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

August 12, 2026 | zacks.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital Reports Strong Quarterly Earnings

August 12, 2026 | tipranks.com

Allied Private Wealth LLC Makes New $984,000 Investment in Sound Point Meridian Capital, Inc. $SPMC

August 10, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital (SPMC) Expected to Release Quarterly Earnings on Wednesday

August 5, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Sound Point Meridian Capital, Inc. Schedules First Fiscal Quarter Ended June 30, 2026 Earnings Release and Conference Call

July 29, 2026 | finance.yahoo.com

Is Sound Point Meridian Capital, Inc. (SPMC) Stock a Good Investment?

July 21, 2026 | aaii.comA

Sound Point Meridian Capital Reports Q2 NAV and Income

July 15, 2026 | tipranks.com

South Pacific Intersects 5 Metres at 12.84 g/t AuEq (Including 2 Metres at 28.06 g/t AuEq) and 12.2 Metres at 6.24 g/t AuEq (Including 2 Metres at 16.65 g/t AuEq) in Three Mineralised Zones Within One Drill Hole at Recently Discovered Structure at Ontenu

July 6, 2026 | newsfilecorp.comN

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SPMC, FDUS, PFLT, and NMFC Company Descriptions

Fidus Investment NASDAQ:FDUS

$19.70 0.00 (0.00%)

Closing price 08/28/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

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$19.70 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 03:59 AM Eastern

Fidus Investment Corporation is a business development company. It specializing in leveraged buyouts, refinancings, change of ownership transactions, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, mezzanine, growth capital, business expansion, lower middle market investments, debt investments, subordinated and second lien loans, senior secured and unitranche debt, preferred equity, warrants, subordinated debt, senior subordinated notes, junior secured loans, and unitranche loans. It does not invest in turnarounds or distressed situations. The fund prefers to invest in aerospace and defense, business services, consumer products and services including retail, food, and beverage, healthcare products and services, industrial products and services, information technology services, niche manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and value-added distribution sectors. It seeks to invest in companies based in United States. The fund typically invests between $5 million and $15 million per transaction in companies with annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million and an annual EBITDA between $3 million and $20 million, but it can occasionally invest in larger or smaller companies. It seeks to acquire minority equity stakes and board observation rights in conjunction with its investments.

New Mountain Finance NASDAQ:NMFC

$7.54 0.00 (0.00%)

Closing price 08/28/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$7.53 -0.01 (-0.19%)

As of 06:38 AM Eastern

New Mountain Finance Corporation (Nasdaq: NMFC), a business development company is a private equity / buyouts and loan fund specializes in directly investing and lending to middle market companies in defensive growth industries. The fund prefers investing in buyout and middle market companies. It also makes investments in debt securities at all levels of the capital structure including first and second lien debt, unsecured notes, and mezzanine securities. In some cases, its investments may also include equity interests. It targets energy, engineering and consulting services, specialty chemicals and materials, trading companies and distributors, commercial printing, diversified support services, education services, environmental and facilities services, office services and supplies, media, distributors, health care services, health care facilities, application software, business services, systems software, federal services, distribution and logistics, interactive home entertainment, telecommunication services, hydroelectric power generation, electric power generation by fossil fuels, electric power generation by nuclear fuels, health care technology, and security and alarm services. The fund seeks to invest in United States of America. It seeks to invest between $10 million and $125 million per transaction. The firm invests through both primary originations and open-market secondary purchases. It invests in companies with EBITDA between $10 million and $200 million. The fund seeks a majority stake in its portfolio companies.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital NYSE:PFLT

$7.39 0.00 (0.00%)

Closing price 08/28/2026 03:58 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$7.41 +0.02 (+0.26%)

As of 05:56 AM Eastern

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. is a business development company. It seeks to make secondary direct, debt, equity, and loan investments. The fund seeks to invest through floating rate loans in private or thinly traded or small market-cap, public middle market companies. It primarily invests in the United States and to a limited extent non-U.S. companies. The fund typically invests between $2 million and $20 million. The fund also invests in equity securities, such as preferred stock, common stock, warrants or options received in connection with debt investments or through direct investments. It primarily invests between $10 million and $50 million in investments in senior secured loans and mezzanine debt. It seeks to invest in companies not rated by national rating agencies. The companies if rated would be between BB and CCC under the Standard & Poor's system. The fund invests 30% is invested in non-qualifying assets like investments in public companies whose securities are not thinly traded or do not have a market capitalization of less than $250 million, securities of middle-market companies located outside of the United States, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, private equity, securities of public companies that are not thinly traded, and investment companies as defined in the 1940 Act. Under normal conditions, the fund expects atleast 80 percent of its net assets plus any borrowings for investment purposes to be invested in Floating Rate Loans and investments with similar economic characteristics, including cash equivalents invested in money market funds. It expects to represent 65 percent of its portfolio through senior secured loans. In case of floating rate loans, it holds investments for a period of three to ten years.

Sound Point Meridian Capital NYSE:SPMC

$9.55 +0.03 (+0.32%)

Closing price 08/28/2026 03:45 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$9.48 -0.07 (-0.73%)

As of 03:59 AM Eastern

Sound Point Meridian Capital Inc. is an externally managed, non-diversified closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to generate high current income, with a secondary objective to generate capital appreciation, by investing primarily in third-party collateralized loan obligation equity and mezzanine tranches. Sound Point Meridian Capital Inc. is based in NEW YORK.

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