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$46.14 +0.67 (+1.47%)
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TWN vs. NMFC, PFLT, BBDC, BCSF, AWF, HQH, PHK, BTO, CGBD, and ASA

Should you be buying Taiwan Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Taiwan Fund include New Mountain Finance (NMFC), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), BARINGS BDC (BBDC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), and ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Taiwan Fund vs. Its Competitors

New Mountain Finance (NASDAQ:NMFC) and Taiwan Fund (NYSE:TWN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.

32.1% of New Mountain Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 11.7% of New Mountain Finance shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of Taiwan Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

New Mountain Finance presently has a consensus target price of $10.67, suggesting a potential upside of 0.72%. Given New Mountain Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe New Mountain Finance is more favorable than Taiwan Fund.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
New Mountain Finance
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Taiwan Fund
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

New Mountain Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Taiwan Fund.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
New Mountain Finance$118.17M9.67$113.44M$1.0010.59
Taiwan FundN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

New Mountain Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.1%. Taiwan Fund pays an annual dividend of $7.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.0%. New Mountain Finance pays out 128.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

New Mountain Finance has a net margin of 29.84% compared to Taiwan Fund's net margin of 0.00%. New Mountain Finance's return on equity of 10.57% beat Taiwan Fund's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
New Mountain Finance29.84% 10.57% 4.35%
Taiwan Fund N/A N/A N/A

New Mountain Finance has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Taiwan Fund has a beta of 1.2, suggesting that its stock price is 20% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, New Mountain Finance had 2 more articles in the media than Taiwan Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for New Mountain Finance and 1 mentions for Taiwan Fund. Taiwan Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat New Mountain Finance's score of 0.62 indicating that Taiwan Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
New Mountain Finance
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Taiwan Fund
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

New Mountain Finance beats Taiwan Fund on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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TWN vs. The Competition

MetricTaiwan FundFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$290.73M$3.79B$12.29B$21.04B
Dividend Yield16.27%6.61%5.54%3.59%
P/E RatioN/AN/A19.0528.45
Price / SalesN/A18.1726.1471.96
Price / CashN/A18.5721.6322.92
Price / BookN/A1.122.204.69
Net IncomeN/A$165.11M$998.02M$995.51M
7 Day Performance1.61%0.50%0.60%1.66%
1 Month Performance3.78%0.83%3.48%4.55%
1 Year Performance10.44%4.91%536.58%10.01%

Taiwan Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TWN
Taiwan Fund
N/A$46.14
+1.5%
N/A+10.3%$290.73MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
1.6343 of 5 stars
$10.58
-1.1%
$10.67
+0.8%
-14.6%$1.15B$371.67M10.58N/A
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.5296 of 5 stars
$10.60
-1.3%
$10.96
+3.4%
-6.0%$1.05B$84.09M7.57658Positive News
BBDC
BARINGS BDC
2.773 of 5 stars
$9.50
-0.9%
$9.67
+1.8%
-4.1%$1.01B$286.17M10.1026
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
1.9707 of 5 stars
$15.17
-2.3%
$16.50
+8.8%
-7.6%$1.01B$292.65M8.721,000Positive News
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$11.00
+1.3%
N/A+4.8%$935.59MN/A0.00N/APositive News
HQH
abrdn Healthcare Investors
N/A$15.65
-2.7%
N/A-13.2%$866.10M$11.71M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
PHK
PIMCO High Income Fund
N/A$4.79
-0.1%
N/A+1.2%$821.45M$99.89M0.00147,000
BTO
John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund
N/A$36.18
-0.5%
N/A+10.0%$717.62MN/A0.002,719
CGBD
Carlyle Secured Lending
1.6436 of 5 stars
$13.79
-1.3%
$14.75
+7.0%
-21.8%$711.87M$232.59M10.21N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
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ASA
ASA Gold and Precious Metals
N/A$33.65
+3.6%
N/A+75.7%$698.90MN/A0.001,100

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This page (NYSE:TWN) was last updated on 7/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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