PSEC vs. AMG, MAIN, GBDC, CNS, OCSL, VRTS, CSWC, SLRC, FDUS, and TCPC
Should you be buying Prospect Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prospect Capital include Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Capital Southwest (CSWC), SLR Investment (SLRC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), and BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Prospect Capital vs.
Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE:AMG) and Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Affiliated Managers Group pays an annual dividend of $0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Prospect Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.0%. Affiliated Managers Group pays out 0.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prospect Capital pays out -62.8% 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. Prospect Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Affiliated Managers Group currently has a consensus target price of $192.40, suggesting a potential upside of 5.08%. Prospect Capital has a consensus target price of $3.00, suggesting a potential downside of 10.98%. Given Affiliated Managers Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Affiliated Managers Group is more favorable than Prospect Capital.
Affiliated Managers Group has a beta of 1.08, suggesting that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prospect Capital has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its stock price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Affiliated Managers Group received 328 more outperform votes than Prospect Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.02% of users gave Affiliated Managers Group an outperform vote while only 51.45% of users gave Prospect Capital an outperform vote.
95.3% of Affiliated Managers Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.1% of Prospect Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.2% of Affiliated Managers Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.3% of Prospect Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Affiliated Managers Group had 2 more articles in the media than Prospect Capital. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Affiliated Managers Group and 8 mentions for Prospect Capital. Affiliated Managers Group's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Prospect Capital's score of 0.32 indicating that Affiliated Managers Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Affiliated Managers Group has a net margin of 25.06% compared to Prospect Capital's net margin of 1.18%. Affiliated Managers Group's return on equity of 16.17% beat Prospect Capital's return on equity.
Affiliated Managers Group has higher revenue and earnings than Prospect Capital. Prospect Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Affiliated Managers Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Affiliated Managers Group beats Prospect Capital on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:PSEC) was last updated on 6/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
