TPVG vs. NMFC, CSWC, PFLT, GAIN, PNNT, SCM, PTMN, OFS, LRFC, and ICMB
Should you be buying TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC include New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Capital Southwest (CSWC), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), Stellus Capital Investment (SCM), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), OFS Capital (OFS), Logan Ridge Finance (LRFC), and Investcorp Credit Management BDC (ICMB). These companies are all part of the "investors, not elsewhere classified" industry.
New Mountain Finance (NASDAQ:NMFC) and TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (NYSE:TPVG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and dividends.
New Mountain Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.3%. New Mountain Finance pays out 115.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC pays out -144.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New Mountain Finance has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years and TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
New Mountain Finance has higher revenue and earnings than TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC. TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New Mountain Finance, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New Mountain Finance currently has a consensus target price of $12.50, indicating a potential downside of 0.40%. TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC has a consensus target price of $9.55, indicating a potential upside of 3.69%. Given New Mountain Finance's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC is more favorable than New Mountain Finance.
32.1% of New Mountain Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.8% of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC shares are held by institutional investors. 10.3% of New Mountain Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
New Mountain Finance has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC has a beta of 1.75, suggesting that its share price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, New Mountain Finance had 1 more articles in the media than TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for New Mountain Finance and 2 mentions for TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC. TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat New Mountain Finance's score of 0.00 indicating that New Mountain Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC received 240 more outperform votes than New Mountain Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.08% of users gave TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC an outperform vote while only 27.27% of users gave New Mountain Finance an outperform vote.
New Mountain Finance has a net margin of 31.67% compared to New Mountain Finance's net margin of -29.68%. New Mountain Finance's return on equity of 19.64% beat TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC's return on equity.
Summary
New Mountain Finance beats TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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