MAIN vs. AGO, COLB, BGC, HWC, MC, STEP, KRC, UMBF, VLY, and NNI
Should you be buying Main Street Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Main Street Capital include Assured Guaranty (AGO), Columbia Banking System (COLB), BGC Group (BGC), Hancock Whitney (HWC), Moelis & Company (MC), StepStone Group (STEP), Kilroy Realty (KRC), UMB Financial (UMBF), Valley National Bancorp (VLY), and Nelnet (NNI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Assured Guaranty (NYSE:AGO) and Main Street Capital (NYSE:MAIN) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and profitability.
Main Street Capital received 4 more outperform votes than Assured Guaranty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.81% of users gave Assured Guaranty an outperform vote while only 56.90% of users gave Main Street Capital an outperform vote.
Assured Guaranty currently has a consensus price target of $97.00, suggesting a potential upside of 25.58%. Main Street Capital has a consensus price target of $47.67, suggesting a potential downside of 2.22%. Given Main Street Capital's higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Assured Guaranty is more favorable than Main Street Capital.
Main Street Capital has a net margin of 89.11% compared to Main Street Capital's net margin of 57.45%. Assured Guaranty's return on equity of 14.83% beat Main Street Capital's return on equity.
92.2% of Assured Guaranty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.3% of Main Street Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.1% of Assured Guaranty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of Main Street Capital shares are owned by company 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.
Assured Guaranty has higher revenue and earnings than Main Street Capital. Assured Guaranty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Main Street Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Assured Guaranty has a beta of 1.14, suggesting that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Main Street Capital has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Main Street Capital had 12 more articles in the media than Assured Guaranty. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Main Street Capital and 3 mentions for Assured Guaranty. Main Street Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Assured Guaranty's score of 0.48 indicating that Assured Guaranty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Assured Guaranty pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Main Street Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Assured Guaranty pays out 9.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Main Street Capital pays out 52.6% 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. Assured Guaranty has increased its dividend for 6 consecutive years and Main Street Capital has increased its dividend for 4 consecutive years.
Summary
Main Street Capital beats Assured Guaranty on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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