Barings BDC (BBDC) Competitors

DNP Select Income Fund (NYSE:DNP) and Barings BDC (NYSE:BBDC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends and media sentiment.

Is DNP or BBDC a better dividend stock?

DNP Select Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Barings BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Barings BDC pays out 110.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Barings BDC has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Barings BDC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has more risk and volatility, DNP or BBDC?

DNP Select Income Fund has a beta of 0.31, indicating that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings BDC has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer DNP or BBDC?

DNP Select Income Fund received 90 more outperform votes than Barings BDC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.80% of users gave DNP Select Income Fund an outperform vote while only 57.14% of users gave Barings BDC an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
DNP Select Income Fund	Outperform Votes 194 70.80%	Underperform Votes 80 29.20%
Barings BDC	Outperform Votes 104 57.14%	Underperform Votes 78 42.86%

Is DNP or BBDC more profitable?

Barings BDC has a net margin of 38.54% compared to DNP Select Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Barings BDC's return on equity of 10.94% beat DNP Select Income Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DNP Select Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Barings BDC	38.54%	10.94%	4.95%

Does the media refer more to DNP or BBDC?

In the previous week, Barings BDC had 7 more articles in the media than DNP Select Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Barings BDC and 1 mentions for DNP Select Income Fund. DNP Select Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Barings BDC's score of 0.43 indicating that DNP Select Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
DNP Select Income Fund	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Barings BDC	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Do analysts rate DNP or BBDC?

Barings BDC has a consensus target price of $9.33, suggesting a potential upside of 3.37%. Given Barings BDC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Barings BDC is more favorable than DNP Select Income Fund.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DNP Select Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Barings BDC	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.33

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of DNP or BBDC?

8.5% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Barings BDC shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Barings BDC shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, DNP or BBDC?

Barings BDC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than DNP Select Income Fund.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DNP Select Income Fund	$851.71M	4.24	N/A	N/A	N/A
Barings BDC	$111.33M	8.55	$110.29M	$0.94	9.61

Summary

Barings BDC beats DNP Select Income Fund on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.