PTMN vs. LRFC, ICMB, SCM, TPVG, PNNT, GAIN, PFLT, COFS, OCN, and STRS
Should you be buying Portman Ridge Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portman Ridge Finance include Logan Ridge Finance (LRFC), Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), ChoiceOne Financial Services (COFS), Ocwen Financial (OCN), and Stratus Properties (STRS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Portman Ridge Finance (NASDAQ:PTMN) and Logan Ridge Finance (NASDAQ:LRFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations and risk.
Portman Ridge Finance received 36 more outperform votes than Logan Ridge Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 43.68% of users gave Portman Ridge Finance an outperform vote while only 15.38% of users gave Logan Ridge Finance an outperform vote.
30.1% of Portman Ridge Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.9% of Logan Ridge Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Portman Ridge Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Logan Ridge Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Portman Ridge Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Logan Ridge Finance. Logan Ridge Finance is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Portman Ridge Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Portman Ridge Finance has a net margin of 14.91% compared to Logan Ridge Finance's net margin of -12.30%. Portman Ridge Finance's return on equity of 16.02% beat Logan Ridge Finance's return on equity.
Portman Ridge Finance has a beta of 0.95, meaning that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Logan Ridge Finance has a beta of 1.32, meaning that its share price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Portman Ridge Finance currently has a consensus target price of $20.00, suggesting a potential upside of 2.72%. Given Portman Ridge Finance's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Portman Ridge Finance is more favorable than Logan Ridge Finance.
In the previous week, Portman Ridge Finance had 1 more articles in the media than Logan Ridge Finance. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Portman Ridge Finance and 1 mentions for Logan Ridge Finance. Portman Ridge Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat Logan Ridge Finance's score of 1.77 indicating that Portman Ridge Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Portman Ridge Finance pays an annual dividend of $2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.1%. Logan Ridge Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Portman Ridge Finance pays out 230.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Logan Ridge Finance pays out -120.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Portman Ridge Finance beats Logan Ridge Finance on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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