Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD) Competitors

Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) and PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PTY) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.

Do analysts prefer CGBD or PTY?

Carlyle Secured Lending presently has a consensus target price of $14.75, suggesting a potential upside of 6.12%. Given Carlyle Secured Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Carlyle Secured Lending is more favorable than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Carlyle Secured Lending	2 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.50
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has better valuation & earnings, CGBD or PTY?

Carlyle Secured Lending has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Carlyle Secured Lending	$83.75M	8.46	$92.28M	$1.35	10.30
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	$230.95M	10.71	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in CGBD or PTY?

24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media prefer CGBD or PTY?

In the previous week, Carlyle Secured Lending had 2 more articles in the media than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending and 0 mentions for PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat Carlyle Secured Lending's score of 0.81 indicating that PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Carlyle Secured Lending	Positive
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	Positive

Which has more risk and volatility, CGBD or PTY?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CGBD or PTY a better dividend stock?

Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays out 118.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Is CGBD or PTY more profitable?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a net margin of 40.69% compared to PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity of 12.60% beat PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Carlyle Secured Lending	40.69%	12.60%	5.77%
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community favor CGBD or PTY?

Carlyle Secured Lending received 63 more outperform votes than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.92% of users gave PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund an outperform vote while only 55.65% of users gave Carlyle Secured Lending an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Carlyle Secured Lending	Outperform Votes 187 55.65%	Underperform Votes 149 44.35%
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	Outperform Votes 124 64.92%	Underperform Votes 67 35.08%

Summary

Carlyle Secured Lending beats PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.