KBDC vs. OBDE, MSDL, BCSF, TRIN, AACT, FSNB, CNCK, CEP, CION, and EQV
Should you be buying Kayne Anderson BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Kayne Anderson BDC include Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Trinity Capital (TRIN), Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT), Fusion Acquisition Corp. II (FSNB), Coincheck Group (CNCK), Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. Class A Ordinary Shares (CEP), CION Investment (CION), and EQV Ventures Acquisition (EQV). These companies are all part of the "holding & other investment offices" industry.
Kayne Anderson BDC vs. Its Competitors
Blue Owl Capital Co. III (NYSE:OBDE) and Kayne Anderson BDC (NYSE:KBDC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. Kayne Anderson BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays out 79.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kayne Anderson BDC pays out 88.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Kayne Anderson BDC has a consensus target price of $16.60, indicating a potential upside of 5.00%. Given Kayne Anderson BDC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Kayne Anderson BDC is more favorable than Blue Owl Capital Co. III.
Kayne Anderson BDC received 6 more outperform votes than Blue Owl Capital Co. III when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Blue Owl Capital Co. III an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Kayne Anderson BDC an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Kayne Anderson BDC had 8 more articles in the media than Blue Owl Capital Co. III. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Kayne Anderson BDC and 0 mentions for Blue Owl Capital Co. III. Kayne Anderson BDC's average media sentiment score of 0.49 beat Blue Owl Capital Co. III's score of 0.00 indicating that Kayne Anderson BDC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kayne Anderson BDC has a net margin of 59.80% compared to Blue Owl Capital Co. III's net margin of 45.35%. Kayne Anderson BDC's return on equity of 12.65% beat Blue Owl Capital Co. III's return on equity.
Blue Owl Capital Co. III has higher revenue and earnings than Kayne Anderson BDC. Blue Owl Capital Co. III is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kayne Anderson BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Kayne Anderson BDC beats Blue Owl Capital Co. III on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:KBDC) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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