Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF) Competitors

DNP Select Income Fund (NYSE:DNP) and Bain Capital Specialty Finance (NYSE:BCSF) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership and earnings.

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

8.5% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares are held 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.

Is DNP or BCSF more profitable?

Bain Capital Specialty Finance has a net margin of 43.62% compared to DNP Select Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Bain Capital Specialty Finance's return on equity of 11.90% 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
Bain Capital Specialty Finance	43.62%	11.90%	5.43%

Is DNP or BCSF a better dividend stock?

DNP Select Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Bain Capital Specialty Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Bain Capital Specialty Finance pays out 96.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Bain Capital Specialty Finance has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Bain Capital Specialty Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has higher earnings and valuation, DNP or BCSF?

Bain Capital Specialty Finance 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	4.23	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bain Capital Specialty Finance	$131.73M	7.74	$123.38M	$1.74	9.04

Which has more volatility and risk, DNP or BCSF?

DNP Select Income Fund has a beta of 0.31, meaning that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bain Capital Specialty Finance has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do analysts rate DNP or BCSF?

Bain Capital Specialty Finance has a consensus price target of $16.50, suggesting a potential upside of 4.95%. Given Bain Capital Specialty Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Bain Capital Specialty Finance 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
Bain Capital Specialty Finance	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.50

Does the media favor DNP or BCSF?

In the previous week, Bain Capital Specialty Finance had 4 more articles in the media than DNP Select Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Bain Capital Specialty Finance and 3 mentions for DNP Select Income Fund. Bain Capital Specialty Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat DNP Select Income Fund's score of 0.33 indicating that Bain Capital Specialty Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
DNP Select Income Fund	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Bain Capital Specialty Finance	2 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	2 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in DNP or BCSF?

DNP Select Income Fund received 132 more outperform votes than Bain Capital Specialty Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.80% of users gave DNP Select Income Fund an outperform vote while only 44.29% of users gave Bain Capital Specialty Finance an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
DNP Select Income Fund	Outperform Votes 194 70.80%	Underperform Votes 80 29.20%
Bain Capital Specialty Finance	Outperform Votes 62 44.29%	Underperform Votes 78 55.71%

Summary

Bain Capital Specialty Finance beats DNP Select Income Fund on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.