MAIN vs. KRC, TFSL, COOP, DOC, BXMT, AEL, FHI, AGO, HWC, and LAZ
Should you be buying Main Street Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Main Street Capital include Kilroy Realty (KRC), TFS Financial (TFSL), Mr. Cooper Group (COOP), Physicians Realty Trust (DOC), Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT), American Equity Investment Life (AEL), Federated Hermes (FHI), Assured Guaranty (AGO), Hancock Whitney (HWC), and Lazard (LAZ). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Main Street Capital vs.
Kilroy Realty (NYSE:KRC) and Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Main Street Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Kilroy Realty. Main Street Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Kilroy Realty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Main Street Capital has a net margin of 61.28% compared to Kilroy Realty's net margin of 21.00%. Main Street Capital's return on equity of 13.49% beat Kilroy Realty's return on equity.
Kilroy Realty has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Main Street Capital has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Kilroy Realty presently has a consensus price target of $44.25, suggesting a potential upside of 58.77%. Main Street Capital has a consensus price target of $42.67, suggesting a potential upside of 5.82%. Given Kilroy Realty's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Kilroy Realty is more favorable than Main Street Capital.
Kilroy Realty pays an annual dividend of $2.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Main Street Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Kilroy Realty pays out 107.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Main Street Capital pays out 81.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Kilroy Realty has increased its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Main Street Capital has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
89.9% of Kilroy Realty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.8% of Main Street Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Kilroy Realty shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Main Street Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Kilroy Realty had 7 more articles in the media than Main Street Capital. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Kilroy Realty and 3 mentions for Main Street Capital. Main Street Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Kilroy Realty's score of 0.51 indicating that Main Street Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Kilroy Realty received 47 more outperform votes than Main Street Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.79% of users gave Kilroy Realty an outperform vote while only 57.54% of users gave Main Street Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Main Street Capital beats Kilroy Realty on 12 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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