PNNT vs. VRTS, OCSL, CSWC, TCPC, SLRC, FDUS, GAIN, GLAD, DHIL, and HRZN
Should you be buying PennantPark Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennantPark Investment include Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Capital Southwest (CSWC), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), SLR Investment (SLRC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), and Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) and PennantPark Investment (NASDAQ:PNNT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
80.5% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.6% of PennantPark Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 6.1% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of PennantPark Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PennantPark Investment received 41 more outperform votes than Virtus Investment Partners when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.96% of users gave PennantPark Investment an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Virtus Investment Partners an outperform vote.
Virtus Investment Partners currently has a consensus price target of $247.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.05%. PennantPark Investment has a consensus price target of $6.94, suggesting a potential downside of 7.38%. Given PennantPark Investment's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Virtus Investment Partners is more favorable than PennantPark Investment.
Virtus Investment Partners has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennantPark Investment has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Virtus Investment Partners has higher revenue and earnings than PennantPark Investment. PennantPark Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virtus Investment Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
PennantPark Investment has a net margin of 40.14% compared to PennantPark Investment's net margin of 14.02%. PennantPark Investment's return on equity of 19.61% beat Virtus Investment Partners' return on equity.
Virtus Investment Partners pays an annual dividend of $7.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. PennantPark Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. Virtus Investment Partners pays out 45.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PennantPark Investment pays out 91.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Virtus Investment Partners has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Virtus Investment Partners had 5 more articles in the media than PennantPark Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Virtus Investment Partners and 0 mentions for PennantPark Investment. PennantPark Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Virtus Investment Partners' score of 0.00 indicating that Virtus Investment Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Virtus Investment Partners beats PennantPark Investment on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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