GAIN vs. PSEC, VRTS, OCSL, CSWC, SLRC, TCPC, FDUS, GLAD, PNNT, and SCM
Should you be buying Gladstone Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Gladstone Investment include Prospect Capital (PSEC), Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS), Oaktree Specialty Lending (OCSL), Capital Southwest (CSWC), SLR Investment (SLRC), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Gladstone Capital (GLAD), PennantPark Investment (PNNT), and Stellus Capital Investment (SCM). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.
Gladstone Investment vs.
Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) and Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and profitability.
Gladstone Investment currently has a consensus target price of $13.75, indicating a potential upside of 0.88%. Prospect Capital has a consensus target price of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 1.35%. Given Prospect Capital's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Prospect Capital is more favorable than Gladstone Investment.
In the previous week, Gladstone Investment had 5 more articles in the media than Prospect Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Gladstone Investment and 0 mentions for Prospect Capital. Prospect Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Gladstone Investment's score of 1.15 indicating that Prospect Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Gladstone Investment received 48 more outperform votes than Prospect Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.86% of users gave Gladstone Investment an outperform vote while only 51.79% of users gave Prospect Capital an outperform vote.
Gladstone Investment has a net margin of 78.02% compared to Prospect Capital's net margin of 1.18%. Prospect Capital's return on equity of 12.31% beat Gladstone Investment's return on equity.
11.9% of Gladstone Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.1% of Prospect Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Gladstone Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.1% of Prospect Capital shares are held 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.
Prospect Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Gladstone Investment. Prospect Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Gladstone Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Gladstone Investment has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its stock price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Prospect Capital has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Gladstone Investment pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Prospect Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.2%. Gladstone Investment pays out 50.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Prospect Capital pays out -270.0% 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. Prospect Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Gladstone Investment beats Prospect Capital on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:GAIN) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
