Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD) Competitors

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PTY) and Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.

Do analysts rate PTY or CGBD?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a consensus target price of $17.00, indicating a potential upside of 18.01%. Given Carlyle Secured Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Carlyle Secured Lending is more favorable than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Carlyle Secured Lending	2 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.33

Does the media favor PTY or CGBD?

In the previous week, PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund and PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund both had 2 articles in the media. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.60 beat Carlyle Secured Lending's score of 1.59 indicating that PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Carlyle Secured Lending	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Is PTY or CGBD a better dividend stock?

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays out 98.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, PTY or CGBD?

Carlyle Secured Lending has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	$230.95M	10.35	N/A	N/A	N/A
Carlyle Secured Lending	$99.28M	7.39	$92.28M	$1.62	8.89

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PTY or CGBD?

Carlyle Secured Lending received 63 more outperform votes than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.92% of users gave PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund an outperform vote while only 56.33% of users gave Carlyle Secured Lending an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	Outperform Votes 124 64.92%	Underperform Votes 67 35.08%
Carlyle Secured Lending	Outperform Votes 187 56.33%	Underperform Votes 145 43.67%

Which has more volatility & risk, PTY or CGBD?

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Is PTY or CGBD more profitable?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a net margin of 40.69% compared to PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity of 12.60% beat PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Carlyle Secured Lending	40.69%	12.60%	5.77%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of PTY or CGBD?

10.3% of PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

Carlyle Secured Lending beats PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.