SLR Investment (SLRC) Competitors

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$17.60 +0.21 (+1.21%)
Closing price 02/14/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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SLRC vs. PSEC, VRTS, OCSL, CSWC, TCPC, FDUS, GLAD, GAIN, PNNT, and DHIL

Should you be buying SLR Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SLR Investment include Prospect Capital (PSEC), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Capital Southwest (CSWC), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), and Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.

SLR Investment vs.

Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) and SLR Investment (NASDAQ:SLRC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Prospect Capital has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SLR Investment has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its stock price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Prospect Capital had 16 more articles in the media than SLR Investment. MarketBeat recorded 20 mentions for Prospect Capital and 4 mentions for SLR Investment. SLR Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Prospect Capital's score of 0.60 indicating that SLR Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Prospect Capital
7 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
SLR Investment
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Prospect Capital currently has a consensus target price of $4.50, suggesting a potential upside of 2.97%. SLR Investment has a consensus target price of $15.25, suggesting a potential downside of 13.35%. Given Prospect Capital's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Prospect Capital is more favorable than SLR Investment.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Prospect Capital
1 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.00
SLR Investment
2 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.50

Prospect Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. SLR Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%. Prospect Capital pays out -207.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SLR Investment pays out 92.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Prospect Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Prospect Capital$861.66M2.21$262.83M-$0.26-16.81
SLR Investment$229.31M4.19$76.39M$1.779.94

SLR Investment received 50 more outperform votes than Prospect Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.83% of users gave SLR Investment an outperform vote while only 51.79% of users gave Prospect Capital an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Prospect CapitalOutperform Votes
319
51.79%
Underperform Votes
297
48.21%
SLR InvestmentOutperform Votes
369
54.83%
Underperform Votes
304
45.17%

SLR Investment has a net margin of 40.89% compared to Prospect Capital's net margin of -2.23%. Prospect Capital's return on equity of 12.19% beat SLR Investment's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Prospect Capital-2.23% 12.19% 5.73%
SLR Investment 40.89%9.73%3.90%

9.1% of Prospect Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.3% of SLR Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 27.1% of Prospect Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of SLR Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

SLR Investment beats Prospect Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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SLRC vs. The Competition

MetricSLR InvestmentInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$960.26M$8.34B$12.04B$9.21B
Dividend Yield9.77%6.80%5.70%3.99%
P/E Ratio9.940.4722.9919.43
Price / Sales4.1914.6627.8676.00
Price / Cash9.947.2118.3538.90
Price / Book0.971.032.745.05
Net Income$76.39M$73.96M$1.03B$222.81M
7 Day Performance3.10%0.46%0.51%1.29%
1 Month Performance5.07%2.21%2.40%1.52%
1 Year Performance17.26%6.30%16.35%16.53%

SLR Investment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SLRC
SLR Investment
1.5811 of 5 stars
$17.60
+1.2%
$15.25
-13.4%
+17.3%$960.26M$229.31M9.94N/A
PSEC
Prospect Capital
1.1811 of 5 stars
$4.18
-0.8%
$4.50
+7.8%
-25.0%$1.82B$861.66M-16.062,019Dividend Announcement
VRTS
Virtus Investment Partners
3.3217 of 5 stars
$185.74
-1.7%
$225.75
+21.5%
-20.6%$1.30B$906.95M10.99770
OCSL
Oaktree Specialty Lending
2.7523 of 5 stars
$15.48
0.0%
$16.75
+8.2%
-22.0%$1.27B$381.67M23.10N/APositive News
CSWC
Capital Southwest
2.1591 of 5 stars
$23.03
+0.3%
$25.25
+9.6%
-0.8%$1.16B$178.13M16.3320Analyst Upgrade
Short Interest ↓
TCPC
BlackRock TCP Capital
1.7769 of 5 stars
$9.02
+0.2%
$9.00
-0.2%
-15.8%$771.59M$209.33M-18.0319,800Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
FDUS
Fidus Investment
1.7009 of 5 stars
$22.62
0.0%
N/A+18.5%$767.14M$130.11M8.08N/ANews Coverage
GLAD
Gladstone Capital
2.0441 of 5 stars
$28.71
-0.6%
$23.00
-19.9%
+42.5%$641.03M$96.62M7.5570Earnings Report
Short Interest ↓
GAIN
Gladstone Investment
0.7555 of 5 stars
$13.53
-0.2%
$13.75
+1.6%
-3.7%$496.53M$87.31M12.7770Earnings Report
PNNT
PennantPark Investment
1.1172 of 5 stars
$7.19
-0.1%
$6.00
-16.5%
+8.9%$469.18M$143.82M42.27N/A
DHIL
Diamond Hill Investment Group
3.2057 of 5 stars
$146.97
-0.2%
N/A-3.7%$400.20M$147.73M8.32130

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This page (NASDAQ:SLRC) was last updated on 2/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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