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PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT) Competitors

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$8.78 +0.28 (+3.23%)
Closing price 10/13/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$8.72 -0.07 (-0.80%)
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PFLT vs. ARCC, MFIC, NMFC, OCSL, PNNT, SLRC, BCSF, MAIN, OBDC, and TSLX

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

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital vs. Its Competitors

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NASDAQ:PFLT) and Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and institutional ownership.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Capital has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital presently has a consensus target price of $10.88, indicating a potential upside of 23.79%. Ares Capital has a consensus target price of $22.81, indicating a potential upside of 17.05%. Given PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is more favorable than Ares Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
5 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.88
Ares Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
8 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.80

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.0%. Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays out 146.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. 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.

19.8% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of Ares Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Ares Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital$89.89M9.70$91.84M$0.8410.46
Ares Capital$2.99B4.60$1.52B$2.059.51

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a net margin of 45.36% compared to Ares Capital's net margin of 44.94%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's return on equity of 10.76% beat Ares Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital45.36% 10.76% 4.65%
Ares Capital 44.94%10.48%5.00%

In the previous week, Ares Capital had 23 more articles in the media than PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Ares Capital and 3 mentions for PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. Ares Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's score of 0.39 indicating that Ares Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Ares Capital
16 Very Positive mention(s)
5 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

Ares Capital beats PennantPark Floating Rate Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PFLT vs. The Competition

MetricPennantPark Floating Rate CapitalInvestors IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$871.63M$267.38M$12.42B$10.30B
Dividend Yield14.25%14.66%5.63%4.82%
P/E Ratio6.288.0129.9527.10
Price / Sales9.706.4930.03133.24
Price / Cash12.486.7819.3430.18
Price / Book0.800.682.276.69
Net Income$91.84M$19.57M$1.02B$276.55M
7 Day Performance-0.68%-0.50%-0.85%-0.40%
1 Month Performance-13.65%-5.95%-1.30%6.53%
1 Year Performance-25.17%-9.36%534.73%41.04%

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
4.1002 of 5 stars
$8.79
+3.2%
$10.88
+23.8%
-24.8%$871.63M$89.89M6.28658
ARCC
Ares Capital
3.4195 of 5 stars
$20.12
-0.1%
$22.86
+13.6%
-8.6%$14.21B$2.99B9.462,550Positive News
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MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.954 of 5 stars
$11.71
-0.8%
$13.40
+14.4%
-12.8%$1.10B$301.78M7.38N/A
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
3.0688 of 5 stars
$9.35
+0.1%
$10.60
+13.4%
-20.6%$993.41M$371.67M7.18N/A
OCSL
Oaktree Specialty Lending
2.4691 of 5 stars
$12.80
-1.1%
$15.00
+17.2%
-20.9%$1.14B$381.67M6.77N/ANews Coverage
PNNT
PennantPark Investment
1.0639 of 5 stars
$6.60
+0.7%
$6.17
-6.5%
-6.2%$430.63M$61.29M25.37N/A
SLRC
SLR Investment
2.8725 of 5 stars
$14.85
-0.7%
$16.11
+8.5%
-4.9%$0.00$232.43M9.17N/A
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
3.0754 of 5 stars
$13.97
-0.6%
$16.50
+18.1%
-17.6%$911.40M$292.65M6.961,000Positive News
MAIN
Main Street Capital
2.4593 of 5 stars
$62.40
-0.9%
$61.20
-1.9%
+10.4%$5.63B$541.03M15.6690
OBDC
Blue Owl Capital
3.694 of 5 stars
$12.55
-0.9%
$15.42
+22.8%
-15.8%$6.47B$1.60B7.32N/A
TSLX
Sixth Street Specialty Lending
2.9359 of 5 stars
$22.28
-0.1%
$23.56
+5.7%
+5.9%$2.10B$482.53M9.62N/APositive News

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This page (NASDAQ:PFLT) was last updated on 10/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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