MIN vs. BCSF, BBDC, CGBD, ECC, NXP, CION, PEO, MYN, KTF, and TPVG
Should you be buying MFS Intermediate Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Intermediate Income Trust include Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Barings BDC (BBDC), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), Eagle Point Credit (ECC), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), CION Investment (CION), Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), and TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
MFS Intermediate Income Trust (NYSE:MIN) and Bain Capital Specialty Finance (NYSE:BCSF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, profitability, valuation and dividends.
MFS Intermediate Income Trust received 89 more outperform votes than Bain Capital Specialty Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.76% of users gave MFS Intermediate Income Trust an outperform vote while only 43.61% of users gave Bain Capital Specialty Finance an outperform vote.
50.9% of MFS Intermediate Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of MFS Intermediate Income Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Bain Capital Specialty Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance has a net margin of 43.42% compared to MFS Intermediate Income Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Bain Capital Specialty Finance's return on equity of 12.64% beat MFS Intermediate Income Trust's return on equity.
MFS Intermediate Income Trust has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bain Capital Specialty Finance has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance has a consensus target price of $16.67, indicating a potential downside of 0.70%. Given Bain Capital Specialty Finance's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bain Capital Specialty Finance is more favorable than MFS Intermediate Income Trust.
In the previous week, MFS Intermediate Income Trust and MFS Intermediate Income Trust both had 4 articles in the media. Bain Capital Specialty Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat MFS Intermediate Income Trust's score of 0.23 indicating that Bain Capital Specialty Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MFS Intermediate Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Bain Capital Specialty Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Bain Capital Specialty Finance pays out 84.0% 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 higher revenue and earnings than MFS Intermediate Income Trust.
Summary
Bain Capital Specialty Finance beats MFS Intermediate Income Trust on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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