CGBD vs. OXLC, GAMI, PUYI, FSCO, VCV, TPVG, EMD, MMT, BKT, and FHI
Should you be buying Carlyle Secured Lending stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Carlyle Secured Lending include Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), Highest Performances (PUYI), FS Credit Opportunities (FSCO), Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust (VCV), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund (EMD), MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), and Federated Hermes (FHI).
Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) and Oxford Lane Capital (NASDAQ:OXLC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Carlyle Secured Lending has a net margin of 38.19% compared to Oxford Lane Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity of 12.80% beat Oxford Lane Capital's return on equity.
Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 1.59, meaning that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oxford Lane Capital has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Carlyle Secured Lending presently has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.90%. Oxford Lane Capital has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 20.72%. Given Oxford Lane Capital's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Oxford Lane Capital is more favorable than Carlyle Secured Lending.
Oxford Lane Capital received 10 more outperform votes than Carlyle Secured Lending when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 58.81% of users gave Oxford Lane Capital an outperform vote while only 57.72% of users gave Carlyle Secured Lending an outperform vote.
Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Oxford Lane Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 19.3%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays out 94.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Oxford Lane Capital pays out 95.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.7% of Oxford Lane Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Oxford Lane Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Oxford Lane Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Carlyle Secured Lending. Oxford Lane 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.
In the previous week, Carlyle Secured Lending had 2 more articles in the media than Oxford Lane Capital. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending and 5 mentions for Oxford Lane Capital. Carlyle Secured Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Oxford Lane Capital's score of 1.20 indicating that Carlyle Secured Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Carlyle Secured Lending beats Oxford Lane Capital on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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