CION vs. OBDE, MSDL, BCSF, CVII, TRIN, AACT, ENGN, SBEA, NETD, and WSFS
Should you be buying CION Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of CION Investment include Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE), Morgan Stanley Direct Lending (MSDL), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Churchill Capital Corp VII (CVII), Trinity Capital (TRIN), Ares Acquisition Co. II (AACT), enGene (ENGN), SilverBox Engaged Merger Corp I (SBEA), Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II (NETD), and WSFS Financial (WSFS).
CION Investment (NYSE:CION) and Blue Owl Capital Co. III (NYSE:OBDE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and earnings.
CION Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. CION Investment pays out 55.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays out 61.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. CION Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Blue Owl Capital Co. III has higher revenue and earnings than CION Investment. CION Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Blue Owl Capital Co. III, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
CION Investment currently has a consensus target price of $11.75, suggesting a potential downside of 5.39%. Blue Owl Capital Co. III has a consensus target price of $16.00, suggesting a potential downside of 1.36%. Given Blue Owl Capital Co. III's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Blue Owl Capital Co. III is more favorable than CION Investment.
In the previous week, CION Investment and CION Investment both had 4 articles in the media. CION Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat Blue Owl Capital Co. III's score of 0.00 indicating that CION Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Blue Owl Capital Co. III has a net margin of 63.33% compared to CION Investment's net margin of 51.16%. Blue Owl Capital Co. III's return on equity of 13.62% beat CION Investment's return on equity.
CION Investment received 3 more outperform votes than Blue Owl Capital Co. III when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Blue Owl Capital Co. III an outperform vote while only 36.36% of users gave CION Investment an outperform vote.
32.0% of CION Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of CION Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Blue Owl Capital Co. III beats CION Investment on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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