TRIN vs. MSDL, OBDE, BCSF, CVII, AACT, CION, AIRJ, SBEA, NETD, and FBP
Should you be buying Trinity Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Trinity Capital include Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL), Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Churchill Capital Corp VII (CVII), Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT), CION Investment (CION), Montana Technologies (AIRJ), SilverBox Engaged Merger Corp I (SBEA), Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II (NETD), and First BanCorp. (FBP).
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (NYSE:MSDL) and Trinity Capital (NASDAQ:TRIN) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, dividends, community ranking, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending has a net margin of 62.34% compared to Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's net margin of 36.12%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's return on equity of 16.73% beat Trinity Capital's return on equity.
Trinity Capital received 53 more outperform votes than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending when rated by MarketBeat users.
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending has higher revenue and earnings than Trinity Capital. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Trinity Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
24.6% of Trinity Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Morgan Stanley Direct Lending shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.4% of Trinity Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Trinity Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Trinity Capital and 4 mentions for Morgan Stanley Direct Lending. Trinity Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.52 beat Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's score of 0.20 indicating that Morgan Stanley Direct Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Trinity Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.7%. Morgan Stanley Direct Lending pays out 64.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Trinity Capital pays out 126.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Trinity Capital has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Trinity Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Morgan Stanley Direct Lending presently has a consensus price target of $21.92, indicating a potential downside of 5.90%. Trinity Capital has a consensus price target of $15.50, indicating a potential upside of 4.10%. Given Morgan Stanley Direct Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Trinity Capital is more favorable than Morgan Stanley Direct Lending.
Summary
Trinity Capital beats Morgan Stanley Direct Lending on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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