PNNT vs. GAIN, SCM, OFS, CSWC, TPVG, PFLT, PTMN, NMFC, FSBC, and MCB
Should you be buying PennantPark Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PennantPark Investment include Gladstone Investment (GAIN), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), OFS Capital (OFS), Capital Southwest (CSWC), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Five Star Bancorp (FSBC), and Metropolitan Bank (MCB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) and PennantPark Investment (NASDAQ:PNNT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.33, meaning that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennantPark Investment has a beta of 1.49, meaning that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. PennantPark Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.4%. Gladstone Investment pays out 38.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. PennantPark Investment pays out 91.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Gladstone Investment has raised its dividend for 12 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Gladstone Investment and Gladstone Investment both had 3 articles in the media. Gladstone Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat PennantPark Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that PennantPark Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Investment received 3 more outperform votes than PennantPark Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 61.47% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 57.96% of users gave PennantPark Investment an outperform vote.
Gladstone Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than PennantPark Investment. Gladstone Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than PennantPark Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Investment presently has a consensus price target of $14.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.85%. PennantPark Investment has a consensus price target of $6.94, suggesting a potential downside of 5.87%. Given PennantPark Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Gladstone Investment is more favorable than PennantPark Investment.
11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 26.6% of PennantPark Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.7% of Gladstone Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.0% of PennantPark Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 97.71% compared to Gladstone Investment's net margin of 40.14%. Gladstone Investment's return on equity of 13.65% beat PennantPark Investment's return on equity.
Summary
Gladstone Investment beats PennantPark Investment on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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