GAIN vs. PNNT, SCM, CSWC, TPVG, PFLT, PTMN, NMFC, TSLX, CPF, and CCB
Should you be buying Gladstone Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Investment include PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), Capital Southwest (CSWC), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), and Coastal Financial (CCB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) and PennantPark Investment (NASDAQ:PNNT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
Gladstone Investment received 3 more outperform votes than PennantPark Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.68% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 58.15% of users gave PennantPark Investment an outperform vote.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 80.68% compared to PennantPark Investment's net margin of 32.55%. PennantPark Investment's return on equity of 14.17% beat Gladstone Investment's return on equity.
Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. PennantPark Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.8%. Gladstone Investment pays out 48.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PennantPark Investment pays out 113.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
PennantPark Investment has a consensus target price of $6.94, indicating a potential downside of 2.70%. Given PennantPark Investment's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe PennantPark Investment is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
In the previous week, Gladstone Investment had 1 more articles in the media than PennantPark Investment. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Gladstone Investment and 1 mentions for PennantPark Investment. PennantPark Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.82 beat Gladstone Investment's score of 0.40 indicating that PennantPark Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PennantPark Investment. Gladstone Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PennantPark Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.6% of PennantPark Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of PennantPark Investment 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.
Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.36, indicating that its stock price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennantPark Investment has a beta of 1.52, indicating that its stock price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PennantPark Investment beats Gladstone Investment on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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