BBDC vs. MC, AB, APAM, CNS, VCTR, FHI, AMK, PJT, DBRG, and HPH
Should you be buying Barings BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings BDC include Moelis & Company (MC), AllianceBernstein (AB), Artisan Partners Asset Management (APAM), Cohen & Steers (CNS), Victory Capital (VCTR), Federated Hermes (FHI), AssetMark Financial (AMK), PJT Partners (PJT), DigitalBridge Group (DBRG), and Highest Performances (HPH). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Moelis & Company (NYSE:MC) and Barings BDC (NYSE:BBDC) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
91.5% of Moelis & Company shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Barings BDC shares are held by institutional investors. 6.4% of Moelis & Company shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Barings BDC 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.
Moelis & Company currently has a consensus price target of $50.80, suggesting a potential downside of 10.26%. Barings BDC has a consensus price target of $9.58, suggesting a potential downside of 4.64%. Given Moelis & Company's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Barings BDC is more favorable than Moelis & Company.
Barings BDC has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Moelis & Company. Moelis & Company is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barings BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Moelis & Company received 204 more outperform votes than Barings BDC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.19% of users gave Barings BDC an outperform vote while only 56.85% of users gave Moelis & Company an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Barings BDC had 1 more articles in the media than Moelis & Company. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Barings BDC and 4 mentions for Moelis & Company. Barings BDC's average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat Moelis & Company's score of -0.16 indicating that Moelis & Company is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Barings BDC has a net margin of 45.35% compared to Barings BDC's net margin of -1.33%. Moelis & Company's return on equity of 10.77% beat Barings BDC's return on equity.
Moelis & Company has a beta of 1.39, suggesting that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings BDC has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its stock price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Moelis & Company pays an annual dividend of $2.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Barings BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Moelis & Company pays out -1,263.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Barings BDC pays out 84.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Barings BDC has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Barings BDC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Barings BDC beats Moelis & Company on 13 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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