LRFC vs. SSSS, HYB, FT, DHF, VPV, INSI, SPE, OXSQ, MSD, and NNY
Should you be buying Logan Ridge Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Logan Ridge Finance include SURO Capital (SSSS), New America High Income Fund (HYB), Franklin Universal Trust (FT), BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (DHF), Inv Vk Pa Valu (VPV), Insight Select Income Fund (INSI), Special Opportunities Fund (SPE), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund (MSD), and Nuveen New York Municipal Valu (NNY). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Logan Ridge Finance vs. Its Competitors
SURO Capital (NASDAQ:SSSS) and Logan Ridge Finance (NASDAQ:LRFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.
SURO Capital currently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential upside of 9.49%. Given SURO Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe SURO Capital is more favorable than Logan Ridge Finance.
Logan Ridge Finance has higher revenue and earnings than SURO Capital. Logan Ridge Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SURO Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
13.0% of SURO Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Logan Ridge Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of SURO Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Logan Ridge Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Logan Ridge Finance has a net margin of -35.29% compared to SURO Capital's net margin of -462.84%. Logan Ridge Finance's return on equity of 4.91% beat SURO Capital's return on equity.
SURO Capital has a beta of 1.8, suggesting that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Logan Ridge Finance has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SURO Capital had 2 more articles in the media than Logan Ridge Finance. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for SURO Capital and 1 mentions for Logan Ridge Finance. Logan Ridge Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat SURO Capital's score of 0.55 indicating that Logan Ridge Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SURO Capital beats Logan Ridge Finance on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:LRFC) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
