NMFC vs. GBDC, PSEC, TSLX, CSWC, PFLT, GAIN, PNNT, TPVG, SCM, and PTMN
Should you be buying New Mountain Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Mountain Finance include Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Prospect Capital (PSEC), Sixth Street Specialty Lending (TSLX), Capital Southwest (CSWC), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), and Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN). These companies are all part of the "investors, not elsewhere classified" industry.
New Mountain Finance (NASDAQ:NMFC) and Golub Capital BDC (NASDAQ:GBDC) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Golub Capital BDC has higher revenue and earnings than New Mountain Finance. Golub Capital BDC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Mountain Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Golub Capital BDC has a net margin of 53.05% compared to New Mountain Finance's net margin of 31.67%. Golub Capital BDC's return on equity of 13.03% beat New Mountain Finance's return on equity.
New Mountain Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Golub Capital BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. New Mountain Finance pays out 115.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Golub Capital BDC pays out 76.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Golub Capital BDC received 294 more outperform votes than New Mountain Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 56.50% of users gave Golub Capital BDC an outperform vote while only 27.27% of users gave New Mountain Finance an outperform vote.
32.1% of New Mountain Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.4% of Golub Capital BDC shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of New Mountain Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Golub Capital BDC shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Golub Capital BDC had 1 more articles in the media than New Mountain Finance. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Golub Capital BDC and 3 mentions for New Mountain Finance. New Mountain Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat Golub Capital BDC's score of 0.29 indicating that New Mountain Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
New Mountain Finance presently has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential downside of 0.79%. Golub Capital BDC has a consensus target price of $16.40, indicating a potential downside of 1.03%. Given New Mountain Finance's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe New Mountain Finance is more favorable than Golub Capital BDC.
New Mountain Finance has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Golub Capital BDC has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Golub Capital BDC beats New Mountain Finance on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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