BBDC vs. FSCO, OXLC, PUYI, EMD, CIFR, RONI, AACT, AMAL, QD, and BFST
Should you be buying Barings BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings BDC include FS Credit Opportunities (FSCO), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Highest Performances (PUYI), Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund (EMD), Cipher Mining (CIFR), Rice Acquisition Corp. II (RONI), Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT), Amalgamated Financial (AMAL), Qudian (QD), and Business First Bancshares (BFST).
FS Credit Opportunities (NYSE:FSCO) and Barings BDC (NYSE:BBDC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, FS Credit Opportunities had 1 more articles in the media than Barings BDC. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for FS Credit Opportunities and 1 mentions for Barings BDC. Barings BDC's average media sentiment score of 0.64 beat FS Credit Opportunities' score of 0.26 indicating that FS Credit Opportunities is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Barings BDC has a consensus price target of $9.13, indicating a potential downside of 1.35%. Given FS Credit Opportunities' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Barings BDC is more favorable than FS Credit Opportunities.
Barings BDC has higher revenue and earnings than FS Credit Opportunities.
Barings BDC has a net margin of 44.26% compared to Barings BDC's net margin of 0.00%. FS Credit Opportunities' return on equity of 10.63% beat Barings BDC's return on equity.
36.4% of FS Credit Opportunities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Barings BDC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of FS Credit Opportunities shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Barings BDC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
FS Credit Opportunities pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.3%. Barings BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. Barings BDC pays out 87.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. FS Credit Opportunities has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Barings BDC has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years.
Barings BDC received 103 more outperform votes than FS Credit Opportunities when rated by MarketBeat users.
FS Credit Opportunities has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings BDC has a beta of 0.63, indicating that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Barings BDC beats FS Credit Opportunities on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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