CION vs. MSDL, OBDE, BCSF, CVII, TRIN, AACT, PV, NETD, ENGN, and MGRC
Should you be buying CION Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CION Investment include Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL), Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Churchill Capital Corp VII (CVII), Trinity Capital (TRIN), Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT), Primavera Capital Acquisition (PV), Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II (NETD), enGene (ENGN), and McGrath RentCorp (MGRC).
CION Investment (NYSE:CION) and Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (NYSE:MSDL) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
CION Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. CION Investment pays out 55.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending pays out 64.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. CION Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
32.0% of CION Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of CION Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Morgan Stanley Direct Lending shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Morgan Stanley Direct Lending had 1 more articles in the media than CION Investment. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Morgan Stanley Direct Lending and 3 mentions for CION Investment. CION Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's score of 0.06 indicating that CION Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending has a net margin of 62.34% compared to CION Investment's net margin of 51.16%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's return on equity of 12.87% beat CION Investment's return on equity.
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending has higher revenue and earnings than CION Investment. CION Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CION Investment received 4 more outperform votes than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users.
CION Investment currently has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential downside of 6.08%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending has a consensus target price of $21.92, suggesting a potential downside of 5.33%. Given Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Morgan Stanley Direct Lending is more favorable than CION Investment.
Summary
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending beats CION Investment on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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