PSEC vs. SEIC, IVZ, AMG, MAIN, CNS, GBDC, VRTS, OCSL, CSWC, and TCPC
Should you be buying Prospect Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Prospect Capital include SEI Investments (SEIC), Invesco (IVZ), Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Capital Southwest (CSWC), and BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) and SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.
Prospect Capital currently has a consensus target price of $5.00, suggesting a potential downside of 11.82%. SEI Investments has a consensus target price of $71.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.10%. Given SEI Investments' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SEI Investments is more favorable than Prospect Capital.
Prospect Capital has a beta of 1, suggesting that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, SEI Investments has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SEI Investments had 2 more articles in the media than Prospect Capital. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for SEI Investments and 5 mentions for Prospect Capital. SEI Investments' average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Prospect Capital's score of 0.71 indicating that SEI Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SEI Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Prospect Capital. Prospect Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than SEI Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
9.1% of Prospect Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.6% of SEI Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 26.7% of Prospect Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 14.3% of SEI Investments 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.
SEI Investments received 60 more outperform votes than Prospect Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.40% of users gave SEI Investments an outperform vote while only 52.21% of users gave Prospect Capital an outperform vote.
Prospect Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.7%. SEI Investments pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Prospect Capital pays out 211.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SEI Investments pays out 25.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Prospect Capital has a net margin of 25.13% compared to SEI Investments' net margin of 24.80%. SEI Investments' return on equity of 22.91% beat Prospect Capital's return on equity.
Summary
SEI Investments beats Prospect Capital on 17 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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