FDUS vs. PSEC, VRTS, OCSL, CSWC, TCPC, SLRC, GAIN, GLAD, PNNT, and DHIL
Should you be buying Fidus Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fidus Investment include Prospect Capital (PSEC), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Capital Southwest (CSWC), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), SLR Investment (SLRC), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), and Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) and Fidus Investment (NASDAQ:FDUS) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Prospect Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Fidus Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. Prospect Capital pays out 211.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fidus Investment pays out 59.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Fidus Investment has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Prospect Capital received 33 more outperform votes than Fidus Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.11% of users gave Fidus Investment an outperform vote while only 52.21% of users gave Prospect Capital an outperform vote.
9.1% of Prospect Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.1% of Fidus Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 26.7% of Prospect Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Fidus Investment shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Prospect Capital presently has a consensus price target of $5.00, indicating a potential downside of 10.39%. Fidus Investment has a consensus price target of $22.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.39%. Given Prospect Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Fidus Investment is more favorable than Prospect Capital.
Fidus Investment has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Prospect Capital. Fidus Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Prospect Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Prospect Capital has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, Fidus Investment has a beta of 1.36, meaning that its share price is 36% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Fidus Investment has a net margin of 60.25% compared to Fidus Investment's net margin of 25.13%. Fidus Investment's return on equity of 13.32% beat Prospect Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, Prospect Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Fidus Investment. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Prospect Capital and 4 mentions for Fidus Investment. Prospect Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Fidus Investment's score of 0.71 indicating that Fidus Investment is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Fidus Investment beats Prospect Capital on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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