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New Mountain Finance (NMFC) Competitors

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$10.78 +0.04 (+0.37%)
Closing price 07/11/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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NMFC vs. ARCC, GBDC, MFIC, OCSL, PFLT, SLRC, TCPC, BCSF, MAIN, and TSLX

Should you be buying New Mountain Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Mountain Finance include Ares Capital (ARCC), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), SLR Investment (SLRC), Blackrock Tcp Capital (TCPC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Main Street Capital (MAIN), and Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

New Mountain Finance vs. Its Competitors

Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) and New Mountain Finance (NASDAQ:NMFC) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Ares Capital has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Mountain Finance has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Ares Capital presently has a consensus target price of $22.00, suggesting a potential downside of 3.68%. New Mountain Finance has a consensus target price of $10.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.05%. Given New Mountain Finance's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe New Mountain Finance is more favorable than Ares Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Ares Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78
New Mountain Finance
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

In the previous week, Ares Capital had 16 more articles in the media than New Mountain Finance. MarketBeat recorded 19 mentions for Ares Capital and 3 mentions for New Mountain Finance. New Mountain Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Ares Capital's score of 1.13 indicating that New Mountain Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Ares Capital
13 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
New Mountain Finance
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Ares Capital has higher revenue and earnings than New Mountain Finance. New Mountain Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ares Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Ares Capital$1.49B10.66$1.52B$2.0511.14
New Mountain Finance$118.17M9.84$113.44M$1.0010.78

Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. New Mountain Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. Ares Capital pays out 93.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. New Mountain Finance pays out 128.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

27.4% of Ares Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.1% of New Mountain Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Ares Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of New Mountain Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Ares Capital has a net margin of 43.50% compared to New Mountain Finance's net margin of 29.84%. Ares Capital's return on equity of 11.05% beat New Mountain Finance's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Ares Capital43.50% 11.05% 5.25%
New Mountain Finance 29.84%10.57%4.35%

Summary

Ares Capital beats New Mountain Finance on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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NMFC vs. The Competition

MetricNew Mountain FinanceFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$1.16B$1.63B$12.08B$9.10B
Dividend Yield11.92%10.86%5.54%4.02%
P/E Ratio10.7817.4419.2020.26
Price / Sales9.8455.3225.66153.06
Price / Cash8.4511.5921.4557.67
Price / Book0.860.962.285.49
Net Income$113.44M$144.88M$992.82M$250.45M
7 Day Performance0.79%1.74%-0.20%4.79%
1 Month Performance1.89%3.73%3.93%9.59%
1 Year Performance-13.06%-6.31%539.45%16.41%

New Mountain Finance Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
1.9473 of 5 stars
$10.78
+0.4%
$10.67
-1.1%
-13.1%$1.16B$118.17M10.78N/APositive News
ARCC
Ares Capital
2.9757 of 5 stars
$22.33
-0.4%
$22.00
-1.5%
+7.8%$15.56B$2.99B10.892,550News Coverage
Positive News
GBDC
Golub Capital BDC
2.5941 of 5 stars
$14.74
-0.2%
$15.50
+5.2%
-4.0%$3.93B$724.68M13.04N/APositive News
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.4024 of 5 stars
$12.69
-0.2%
$14.00
+10.3%
-15.8%$1.19B$113.46M10.23N/APositive News
OCSL
Oaktree Specialty Lending
1.3628 of 5 stars
$13.85
-1.6%
$15.83
+14.3%
-22.3%$1.24B$381.67M106.54N/APositive News
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.3383 of 5 stars
$10.47
-0.8%
$10.92
+4.3%
-9.8%$1.04B$84.09M7.48658Negative News
SLRC
SLR Investment
2.7559 of 5 stars
$16.20
-1.0%
$15.96
-1.5%
+1.4%$0.00$232.43M10.06N/A
TCPC
Blackrock Tcp Capital
1.1012 of 5 stars
$7.73
-1.3%
$7.00
-9.4%
-28.2%$665.85M-$30.30M-13.3321,100News Coverage
Analyst Downgrade
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
1.8325 of 5 stars
$15.02
-1.5%
$16.50
+9.9%
-6.7%$989.24M$292.65M8.631,000High Trading Volume
MAIN
Main Street Capital
1.3793 of 5 stars
$60.97
-0.3%
$52.80
-13.4%
+22.3%$5.44B$541.03M10.3590News Coverage
Ex-Dividend
TSLX
Sixth Street Specialty Lending
2.4644 of 5 stars
$23.94
-1.8%
$22.81
-4.7%
+11.4%$2.29B$482.53M12.67N/A

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This page (NASDAQ:NMFC) was last updated on 7/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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