SCM vs. CSWC, TCPC, SLRC, FDUS, GAIN, GLAD, PNNT, DHIL, HRZN, and WHF
Should you be buying Stellus Capital Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Stellus Capital Investment include Capital Southwest (CSWC), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), SLR Investment (SLRC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), and WhiteHorse Finance (WHF). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Capital Southwest (NASDAQ:CSWC) and Stellus Capital Investment (NYSE:SCM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Capital Southwest has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Stellus Capital Investment has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500.
23.4% of Capital Southwest shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.2% of Stellus Capital Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 4.8% of Capital Southwest shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Stellus Capital Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Capital Southwest currently has a consensus target price of $25.50, suggesting a potential downside of 0.31%. Stellus Capital Investment has a consensus target price of $13.63, suggesting a potential downside of 1.84%. Given Stellus Capital Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Capital Southwest is more favorable than Stellus Capital Investment.
Capital Southwest has a net margin of 46.81% compared to Capital Southwest's net margin of 24.08%. Stellus Capital Investment's return on equity of 15.88% beat Capital Southwest's return on equity.
Stellus Capital Investment received 64 more outperform votes than Capital Southwest when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.02% of users gave Capital Southwest an outperform vote while only 59.14% of users gave Stellus Capital Investment an outperform vote.
Capital Southwest pays an annual dividend of $2.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Stellus Capital Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Capital Southwest pays out 111.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Stellus Capital Investment pays out 148.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Capital Southwest has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Stellus Capital Investment has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Capital Southwest has higher revenue and earnings than Stellus Capital Investment. Capital Southwest 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.
In the previous week, Capital Southwest had 1 more articles in the media than Stellus Capital Investment. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Capital Southwest and 3 mentions for Stellus Capital Investment. Stellus Capital Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.85 beat Capital Southwest's score of 0.31 indicating that Capital Southwest is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Capital Southwest beats Stellus Capital Investment on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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