PFLT vs. GAIN, TPVG, CSWC, PNNT, SCM, PTMN, NMFC, TSLX, CFB, and BTO
Should you be buying PennantPark Floating Rate Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital include Gladstone Investment (GAIN), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Capital Southwest (CSWC), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), CrossFirst Bankshares (CFB), and John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital vs.
Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NASDAQ:PFLT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability and earnings.
Gladstone Investment received 117 more outperform votes than PennantPark Floating Rate Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.14% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 50.92% of users gave PennantPark Floating Rate Capital an outperform vote.
Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Gladstone Investment pays out 73.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays out -342.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Gladstone Investment has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Gladstone Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for PennantPark Floating Rate Capital and 1 mentions for Gladstone Investment. Gladstone Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's score of 0.82 indicating that Gladstone Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
12.1% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.0% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Gladstone Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PennantPark Floating Rate Capital. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Investment presently has a consensus target price of $13.17, indicating a potential upside of 2.31%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a consensus target price of $11.67, indicating a potential upside of 6.94%. Given PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 53.82% compared to PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's net margin of -10.46%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's return on equity of 10.47% beat Gladstone Investment's return on equity.
Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a beta of 1.66, meaning that its stock price is 66% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Gladstone Investment beats PennantPark Floating Rate Capital on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding PFLT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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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