Barings Participation Investors (MPV) Competitors

Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) and Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.

Do analysts prefer CGBD or MPV?

Carlyle Secured Lending presently has a consensus price target of $14.75, indicating a potential upside of 6.73%. Given Carlyle Secured Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Carlyle Secured Lending is more favorable than Barings Participation Investors.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Carlyle Secured Lending	2 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.50
Barings Participation Investors	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, CGBD or MPV?

Carlyle Secured Lending has higher revenue and earnings than Barings Participation Investors.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Carlyle Secured Lending	$83.75M	8.41	$92.28M	$1.35	10.24
Barings Participation Investors	$18.78M	9.76	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has more risk & volatility, CGBD or MPV?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its share price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to CGBD or MPV?

In the previous week, Barings Participation Investors had 1 more articles in the media than Carlyle Secured Lending. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Barings Participation Investors and 1 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending. Carlyle Secured Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat Barings Participation Investors' score of 0.50 indicating that Carlyle Secured Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Carlyle Secured Lending	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Barings Participation Investors	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is CGBD or MPV a better dividend stock?

Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays out 118.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in CGBD or MPV?

24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Barings Participation Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is CGBD or MPV more profitable?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a net margin of 40.69% compared to Barings Participation Investors' net margin of 0.00%. Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity of 12.60% beat Barings Participation Investors' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Carlyle Secured Lending	40.69%	12.60%	5.77%
Barings Participation Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in CGBD or MPV?

Carlyle Secured Lending received 110 more outperform votes than Barings Participation Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.16% of users gave Barings Participation Investors an outperform vote while only 55.65% of users gave Carlyle Secured Lending an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Carlyle Secured Lending	Outperform Votes 187 55.65%	Underperform Votes 149 44.35%
Barings Participation Investors	Outperform Votes 77 60.16%	Underperform Votes 51 39.84%

Summary

Carlyle Secured Lending beats Barings Participation Investors on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.