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Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD) Competitors

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CGBD vs. GLAD, MFIC, NMFC, OCSL, PFLT, SLRC, BCSF, GSBD, STWD, and TSLX

Should you be buying Carlyle Secured Lending stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carlyle Secured Lending include Gladstone Capital (GLAD), 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), Starwood Property Trust (STWD), 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 Gladstone Capital (NASDAQ:GLAD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.

Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Gladstone Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.1%. 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. Gladstone Capital pays out 50.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gladstone Capital has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

Gladstone Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Carlyle Secured Lending. Gladstone 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$232.59M3.03$88.98M$1.3510.25
Gladstone Capital$96.62M6.41$94.72M$3.947.04

Carlyle Secured Lending presently has a consensus price target of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.58%. Gladstone Capital has a consensus price target of $23.00, indicating a potential downside of 17.11%. Given Carlyle Secured Lending's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Carlyle Secured Lending is more favorable than Gladstone Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Carlyle Secured Lending
2 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.60
Gladstone Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Gladstone Capital has a net margin of 93.42% compared to Carlyle Secured Lending's net margin of 32.72%. Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity of 10.49% beat Gladstone Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Carlyle Secured Lending32.72% 10.49% 4.88%
Gladstone Capital 93.42%9.85%5.78%

In the previous week, Gladstone Capital had 2 more articles in the media than Carlyle Secured Lending. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Gladstone Capital and 1 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending. Carlyle Secured Lending's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat Gladstone Capital's score of 0.38 indicating that Carlyle Secured Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Capital has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.7% of Gladstone Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Gladstone Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Gladstone Capital beats Carlyle Secured Lending on 11 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$705.29M$1.48B$12.08B$9.02B
Dividend Yield11.49%11.05%5.53%3.99%
P/E Ratio10.2517.2520.0520.25
Price / Sales3.0352.9525.72119.26
Price / Cash7.3411.3318.7128.59
Price / Book0.820.942.285.65
Net Income$88.98M$144.88M$998.26M$249.15M
7 Day Performance1.17%1.87%2.09%2.91%
1 Month Performance-1.28%1.31%4.18%4.11%
1 Year Performance-23.07%-6.33%542.26%20.98%

Carlyle Secured Lending Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CGBD
Carlyle Secured Lending
1.0405 of 5 stars
$13.84
-0.6%
$14.75
+6.6%
-22.6%$705.29M$232.59M10.25N/A
GLAD
Gladstone Capital
1.7262 of 5 stars
$26.97
+0.9%
$23.00
-14.7%
+16.3%$602.24M$96.62M6.8570
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
3.2182 of 5 stars
$12.62
+1.0%
$14.00
+10.9%
-18.0%$1.18B$301.78M10.18N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
1.8745 of 5 stars
$10.55
+0.1%
$10.67
+1.1%
-13.2%$1.14B$371.67M10.55N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
OCSL
Oaktree Specialty Lending
2.5236 of 5 stars
$13.66
+0.7%
$15.83
+15.9%
-24.9%$1.20B$381.67M105.08N/A
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.3617 of 5 stars
$10.35
+1.0%
$10.92
+5.5%
-10.6%$1.03B$84.09M7.39658Dividend Announcement
SLRC
SLR Investment
2.0402 of 5 stars
$16.14
+0.3%
$15.96
-1.1%
+1.8%$0.00$232.43M10.02N/A
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
1.2316 of 5 stars
$15.02
+0.5%
$16.50
+9.9%
-7.8%$969.14M$131.73M8.631,000
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.8073 of 5 stars
$11.26
-3.2%
$12.00
+6.6%
-25.5%$1.32B$434.37M25.02N/A
STWD
Starwood Property Trust
3.3926 of 5 stars
$20.08
-1.6%
$21.83
+8.7%
+10.3%$6.82B$1.95B21.14290Positive News
TSLX
Sixth Street Specialty Lending
2.1125 of 5 stars
$23.83
+0.3%
$22.81
-4.3%
+12.2%$2.24B$236.90M12.61N/AHigh Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:CGBD) was last updated on 7/7/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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