SLRC vs. CNS, GBDC, PSEC, VRTS, OCSL, CSWC, TCPC, FDUS, GAIN, and PNNT
Should you be buying SLR Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SLR Investment include Cohen & Steers (CNS), Golub Capital BDC (GBDC), Prospect Capital (PSEC), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Capital Southwest (CSWC), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), and PennantPark Investment (PNNT). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
SLR Investment (NASDAQ:SLRC) and Cohen & Steers (NYSE:CNS) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.
SLR Investment presently has a consensus price target of $14.88, suggesting a potential downside of 10.93%. Cohen & Steers has a consensus price target of $67.00, suggesting a potential downside of 2.30%. Given Cohen & Steers' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Cohen & Steers is more favorable than SLR Investment.
In the previous week, SLR Investment and SLR Investment both had 2 articles in the media. Cohen & Steers' average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat SLR Investment's score of 0.51 indicating that Cohen & Steers is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SLR Investment received 134 more outperform votes than Cohen & Steers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.16% of users gave SLR Investment an outperform vote while only 54.65% of users gave Cohen & Steers an outperform vote.
35.3% of SLR Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.5% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of SLR Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.6% of Cohen & Steers shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SLR Investment has a net margin of 41.66% compared to Cohen & Steers' net margin of 26.27%. Cohen & Steers' return on equity of 36.67% beat SLR Investment's return on equity.
Cohen & Steers has higher revenue and earnings than SLR Investment. SLR Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Cohen & Steers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SLR Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Cohen & Steers pays an annual dividend of $2.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. SLR Investment pays out 92.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Cohen & Steers pays out 91.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
SLR Investment has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cohen & Steers has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Cohen & Steers beats SLR Investment on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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