GLAD vs. VRTS, OCSL, CSWC, TCPC, SLRC, FDUS, GAIN, PNNT, DHIL, and HRZN
Should you be buying Gladstone Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Capital include Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Capital Southwest (CSWC), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), SLR Investment (SLRC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), and Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ:VRTS) and Gladstone Capital (NASDAQ:GLAD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
Virtus Investment Partners presently has a consensus target price of $247.00, indicating a potential upside of 8.70%. Gladstone Capital has a consensus target price of $22.00, indicating a potential downside of 0.72%. Given Gladstone Capital's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Virtus Investment Partners is more favorable than Gladstone Capital.
Gladstone Capital has a net margin of 73.15% compared to Gladstone Capital's net margin of 14.02%. Gladstone Capital's return on equity of 19.61% beat Virtus Investment Partners' return on equity.
Virtus Investment Partners received 55 more outperform votes than Gladstone Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.58% of users gave Gladstone Capital an outperform vote while only 53.57% of users gave Virtus Investment Partners an outperform vote.
Virtus Investment Partners pays an annual dividend of $7.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Gladstone Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.98 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Virtus Investment Partners pays out 45.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Gladstone Capital pays out 71.7% 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. Virtus Investment Partners has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Gladstone Capital has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
80.5% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.7% of Gladstone Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.1% of Virtus Investment Partners shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Gladstone Capital 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.
Virtus Investment Partners has a beta of 1.5, indicating that its share price is 50% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Gladstone Capital has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its share price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Virtus Investment Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Gladstone Capital. Gladstone Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Virtus Investment Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Gladstone Capital had 3 more articles in the media than Virtus Investment Partners. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Gladstone Capital and 3 mentions for Virtus Investment Partners. Gladstone Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Virtus Investment Partners' score of 0.28 indicating that Virtus Investment Partners is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Virtus Investment Partners beats Gladstone Capital on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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