SCM vs. PSEC, OCSL, VRTS, CSWC, SLRC, FDUS, TCPC, GLAD, GAIN, and PNNT
Should you be buying Stellus Capital Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stellus Capital Investment include Prospect Capital (PSEC), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Capital Southwest (CSWC), SLR Investment (SLRC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), and PennantPark Investment (PNNT). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Stellus Capital Investment vs. Its Competitors
Stellus Capital Investment (NYSE:SCM) and Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings and institutional ownership.
Stellus Capital Investment has a net margin of 45.39% compared to Prospect Capital's net margin of 1.18%. Stellus Capital Investment's return on equity of 13.49% beat Prospect Capital's return on equity.
Prospect Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Stellus Capital Investment. Prospect Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Stellus Capital Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
13.2% of Stellus Capital Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.1% of Prospect Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Stellus Capital Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 28.3% of Prospect Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Stellus Capital Investment has a beta of 0.87, meaning that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prospect Capital has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Stellus Capital Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. Prospect Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.0%. Stellus Capital Investment pays out 111.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Prospect Capital pays out -62.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prospect Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Stellus Capital Investment currently has a consensus price target of $13.00, indicating a potential downside of 5.80%. Prospect Capital has a consensus price target of $3.00, indicating a potential downside of 10.98%. Given Stellus Capital Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Stellus Capital Investment is more favorable than Prospect Capital.
In the previous week, Prospect Capital had 8 more articles in the media than Stellus Capital Investment. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Prospect Capital and 1 mentions for Stellus Capital Investment. Prospect Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Stellus Capital Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Prospect Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Prospect Capital received 15 more outperform votes than Stellus Capital Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.57% of users gave Stellus Capital Investment an outperform vote while only 51.45% of users gave Prospect Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
Stellus Capital Investment beats Prospect Capital on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:SCM) was last updated on 6/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
