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Main Street Capital (MAIN) Competitors

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$66.24 +0.42 (+0.63%)
Closing price 08/29/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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MAIN vs. ARCC, GLAD, MFIC, NMFC, OCSL, PFLT, FSK, GSBD, HTGC, and TSLX

Should you be buying Main Street Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Main Street Capital include Ares Capital (ARCC), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), FS KKR Capital (FSK), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Hercules Capital (HTGC), and Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.

Main Street Capital vs. Its Competitors

Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) and Ares Capital (NASDAQ:ARCC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends and risk.

Main Street Capital has a net margin of 96.16% compared to Ares Capital's net margin of 44.94%. Main Street Capital's return on equity of 12.70% beat Ares Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Main Street Capital96.16% 12.70% 6.85%
Ares Capital 44.94%10.48%5.00%

In the previous week, Main Street Capital and Main Street Capital both had 16 articles in the media. Ares Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.37 beat Main Street Capital's score of 1.32 indicating that Ares Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Main Street Capital
11 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Ares Capital
12 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Main Street Capital currently has a consensus price target of $61.20, indicating a potential downside of 7.60%. Ares Capital has a consensus price target of $22.86, indicating a potential upside of 2.04%. Given Ares Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ares Capital is more favorable than Main Street Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Main Street Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Ares Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Main Street Capital$541.03M10.95$508.08M$6.0710.91
Ares Capital$2.99B5.28$1.52B$2.0510.93

Main Street Capital pays an annual dividend of $3.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Ares Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Main Street Capital pays out 50.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ares Capital pays out 93.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Main Street Capital has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years.

20.3% of Main Street Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.4% of Ares Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Main Street Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Ares Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Main Street Capital has a beta of 0.85, suggesting that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ares Capital has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Main Street Capital beats Ares Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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MAIN vs. The Competition

MetricMain Street CapitalFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$5.89B$1.53B$12.57B$21.36B
Dividend Yield4.65%11.22%5.43%3.50%
P/E Ratio10.9111.86228.8229.31
Price / Sales10.9552.2231.7552.63
Price / Cash16.1111.1822.2324.03
Price / Book2.050.972.355.36
Net Income$508.08M$152.42M$1.01B$996.52M
7 Day Performance1.77%1.32%0.24%0.44%
1 Month Performance2.72%-0.82%2.47%3.55%
1 Year Performance34.11%-3.66%541.19%12.14%

Main Street Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MAIN
Main Street Capital
2.1538 of 5 stars
$66.24
+0.6%
$61.20
-7.6%
+34.9%$5.89B$541.03M10.9190Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ARCC
Ares Capital
2.0699 of 5 stars
$22.20
+0.5%
$22.86
+3.0%
+6.6%$15.66B$1.50B10.832,550Positive News
GLAD
Gladstone Capital
1.2586 of 5 stars
$26.17
+0.1%
$24.50
-6.4%
+16.7%$584.26M$96.62M7.7270Positive News
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
1.6441 of 5 stars
$13.08
+0.4%
$13.30
+1.7%
-4.6%$1.22B$301.78M12.12N/APositive News
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
2.236 of 5 stars
$10.39
+0.4%
$10.75
+3.5%
-12.9%$1.10B$89.05M13.66N/APositive News
OCSL
Oaktree Specialty Lending
1.5732 of 5 stars
$13.75
+0.7%
$15.00
+9.1%
-17.7%$1.21B$35.77M24.53N/APositive News
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.3318 of 5 stars
$10.06
-0.2%
$10.88
+8.2%
-8.2%$996.65M$89.89M7.18658
FSK
FS KKR Capital
1.5517 of 5 stars
$17.89
+0.0%
$18.42
+3.0%
-9.9%$5.01B$315M22.94N/APositive News
Analyst Forecast
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.3454 of 5 stars
$11.35
+0.3%
$10.00
-11.9%
-18.6%$1.29B$161.13M9.00N/APositive News
HTGC
Hercules Capital
2.1144 of 5 stars
$19.20
+0.6%
$20.58
+7.2%
+3.4%$3.49B$493.59M12.71100Positive News
TSLX
Sixth Street Specialty Lending
2.0042 of 5 stars
$24.17
+0.5%
$23.28
-3.7%
+15.7%$2.28B$482.53M12.02N/A

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