NMFC vs. CSWC, TSLX, PFLT, GAIN, PNNT, PSEC, TPVG, GBDC, PWP, and FINV
Should you be buying New Mountain Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Mountain Finance include Capital Southwest (CSWC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Prospect Capital (PSEC), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), and FinVolution Group (FINV). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
New Mountain Finance (NASDAQ:NMFC) and Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
New Mountain Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Capital Southwest. New Mountain Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Capital Southwest, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New Mountain Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Capital Southwest pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. New Mountain Finance pays out 102.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Capital Southwest pays out 97.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
New Mountain Finance currently has a consensus price target of $12.50, suggesting a potential downside of 1.73%. Capital Southwest has a consensus price target of $25.50, suggesting a potential downside of 1.16%. Given Capital Southwest's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Capital Southwest is more favorable than New Mountain Finance.
New Mountain Finance has a beta of 1.13, indicating that its stock price is 13% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Capital Southwest has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Capital Southwest has a net margin of 52.16% compared to New Mountain Finance's net margin of 36.13%. Capital Southwest's return on equity of 15.82% beat New Mountain Finance's return on equity.
32.1% of New Mountain Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.4% of Capital Southwest shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.3% of New Mountain Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.8% of Capital Southwest shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, New Mountain Finance had 1 more articles in the media than Capital Southwest. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for New Mountain Finance and 2 mentions for Capital Southwest. New Mountain Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Capital Southwest's score of 0.00 indicating that New Mountain Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Capital Southwest received 234 more outperform votes than New Mountain Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.18% of users gave Capital Southwest an outperform vote while only 27.27% of users gave New Mountain Finance an outperform vote.
Summary
Capital Southwest beats New Mountain Finance on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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