PTMN vs. GAIN, PNNT, TPVG, SCM, OFS, LRFC, MATH, ICMB, TURN, and SFES
Should you be buying Portman Ridge Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Portman Ridge Finance include Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), OFS Capital (OFS), Logan Ridge Finance (LRFC), Metalpha Technology (MATH), Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB), 180 Degree Capital (TURN), and Safeguard Scientifics (SFES). These companies are all part of the "investors, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) and Portman Ridge Finance (NASDAQ:PTMN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 97.71% compared to Gladstone Investment's net margin of 21.81%. Gladstone Investment's return on equity of 15.21% beat Portman Ridge Finance's return on equity.
Gladstone Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Portman Ridge Finance. Gladstone Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Portman Ridge Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 30.1% of Portman Ridge Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Portman Ridge Finance shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Portman Ridge Finance has a beta of 0.96, indicating that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Portman Ridge Finance pays an annual dividend of $2.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.9%. Gladstone Investment pays out 38.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Portman Ridge Finance pays out 165.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Gladstone Investment has increased its dividend for 12 consecutive years and Portman Ridge Finance has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Gladstone Investment currently has a consensus target price of $14.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.21%. Portman Ridge Finance has a consensus target price of $20.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.55%. Given Gladstone Investment's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Portman Ridge Finance is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
In the previous week, Gladstone Investment and Gladstone Investment both had 2 articles in the media. Portman Ridge Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat Gladstone Investment's score of 0.92 indicating that Gladstone Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Gladstone Investment received 329 more outperform votes than Portman Ridge Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.47% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 43.68% of users gave Portman Ridge Finance an outperform vote.
Summary
Gladstone Investment beats Portman Ridge Finance on 14 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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