PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT) Competitors

DNP Select Income Fund (NYSE:DNP) and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NASDAQ:PFLT) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Which has more volatility and risk, DNP or PFLT?

DNP Select Income Fund has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is DNP or PFLT a better dividend stock?

DNP Select Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.2%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays out 87.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do analysts rate DNP or PFLT?

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a consensus price target of $11.38, indicating a potential upside of 12.46%. Given PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is more favorable than DNP Select Income Fund.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DNP Select Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40

Does the media prefer DNP or PFLT?

In the previous week, DNP Select Income Fund had 3 more articles in the media than PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for DNP Select Income Fund and 3 mentions for PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat DNP Select Income Fund's score of 1.38 indicating that PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
DNP Select Income Fund	3 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	3 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Which has higher valuation and earnings, DNP or PFLT?

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DNP Select Income Fund.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DNP Select Income Fund	$851.71M	4.19	N/A	N/A	N/A
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	$114.06M	7.80	$91.84M	$1.40	7.23

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer DNP or PFLT?

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital received 59 more outperform votes than DNP Select Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.80% of users gave DNP Select Income Fund an outperform vote while only 49.13% of users gave PennantPark Floating Rate Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
DNP Select Income Fund	Outperform Votes 194 70.80%	Underperform Votes 80 29.20%
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	Outperform Votes 253 49.13%	Underperform Votes 262 50.87%

Is DNP or PFLT more profitable?

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a net margin of 45.36% compared to DNP Select Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's return on equity of 10.76% beat DNP Select Income Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DNP Select Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital	45.36%	10.76%	4.65%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of DNP or PFLT?

8.5% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.8% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital 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.

Summary

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital beats DNP Select Income Fund on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.