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Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD) Competitors

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$12.34 +0.14 (+1.15%)
Closing price 10/17/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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CGBD vs. ARCC, MFIC, NMFC, OCSL, PFLT, SLRC, BCSF, GSBD, OBDC, and TSLX

Should you be buying Carlyle Secured Lending stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carlyle Secured Lending include Ares Capital (ARCC), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), SLR Investment (SLRC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Blue Owl Capital (OBDC), and Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Carlyle Secured Lending vs. Its Competitors

Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) and Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, media sentiment, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Carlyle Secured Lending presently has a consensus price target of $14.83, suggesting a potential upside of 20.21%. Ares Capital has a consensus price target of $22.63, suggesting a potential upside of 15.97%. Given Carlyle Secured Lending's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Carlyle Secured Lending is more favorable than Ares Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Carlyle Secured Lending
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.17
Ares Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80

Ares Capital has a net margin of 44.94% compared to Carlyle Secured Lending's net margin of 29.71%. Ares Capital's return on equity of 10.48% beat Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Carlyle Secured Lending29.71% 9.85% 4.59%
Ares Capital 44.94%10.48%5.00%

Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 0.89, meaning that its share price is 11% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Capital has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays out 133.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Ares Capital pays out 93.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

In the previous week, Ares Capital had 7 more articles in the media than Carlyle Secured Lending. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Ares Capital and 7 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending. Ares Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.25 beat Carlyle Secured Lending's score of 1.07 indicating that Ares Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Carlyle Secured Lending
4 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ares Capital
11 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of Ares Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Ares Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Ares Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Carlyle Secured Lending. Ares Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Carlyle Secured Lending, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Carlyle Secured Lending$232.59M2.70$88.98M$1.2010.28
Ares Capital$2.99B4.60$1.52B$2.059.52

Summary

Ares Capital beats Carlyle Secured Lending on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CGBD vs. The Competition

MetricCarlyle Secured LendingFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$628.81M$1.35B$12.55B$10.56B
Dividend Yield12.97%12.82%5.60%4.81%
P/E Ratio10.2810.3028.5527.12
Price / Sales2.7036.9829.72132.79
Price / Cash6.519.4522.2260.81
Price / Book0.730.832.236.52
Net Income$88.98M$152.42M$1.02B$276.93M
7 Day Performance5.20%2.22%0.22%1.93%
1 Month Performance-8.52%-9.52%-2.52%2.19%
1 Year Performance-30.12%-16.37%533.63%34.99%

Carlyle Secured Lending Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CGBD
Carlyle Secured Lending
3.7798 of 5 stars
$12.34
+1.1%
$14.83
+20.2%
-30.5%$628.81M$232.59M10.28N/APositive News
Short Interest ↑
ARCC
Ares Capital
3.857 of 5 stars
$20.12
-0.1%
$22.86
+13.6%
-9.6%$14.21B$2.99B9.812,550Positive News
Analyst Forecast
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.8364 of 5 stars
$11.71
-0.8%
$13.40
+14.4%
-12.8%$1.10B$301.78M10.84N/A
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
3.1898 of 5 stars
$9.35
+0.1%
$10.60
+13.4%
-20.3%$993.41M$371.67M12.30N/A
OCSL
Oaktree Specialty Lending
3.3464 of 5 stars
$12.80
-1.1%
$15.00
+17.2%
-21.3%$1.14B$381.67M22.86N/APositive News
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.6488 of 5 stars
$8.87
+0.2%
$10.88
+22.7%
-27.5%$879.57M$89.89M6.33658Analyst Forecast
SLRC
SLR Investment
2.9139 of 5 stars
$14.85
-0.7%
$16.11
+8.5%
-6.8%$0.00$232.43M9.17N/AAnalyst Forecast
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
2.4387 of 5 stars
$13.97
-0.6%
$16.50
+18.1%
-17.1%$911.40M$292.65M8.421,000Analyst Downgrade
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
2.0225 of 5 stars
$9.97
-0.5%
$10.00
+0.3%
-29.1%$1.14B$434.37M7.91N/APositive News
OBDC
Blue Owl Capital
3.6547 of 5 stars
$12.55
-0.9%
$15.42
+22.8%
-16.4%$6.47B$1.60B8.31N/ANews Coverage
Short Interest ↑
TSLX
Sixth Street Specialty Lending
3.4911 of 5 stars
$22.28
-0.1%
$23.56
+5.7%
+3.8%$2.10B$242.97M11.08N/APositive News

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This page (NASDAQ:CGBD) was last updated on 10/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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