NMFC vs. DNP, PTY, ADX, USA, GAB, STEW, OXLC, RVT, BCAT, and CET
Should you be buying New Mountain Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Mountain Finance include DNP Select Income Fund (DNP), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Royce Value Trust (RVT), BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), and Central Securities (CET). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
New Mountain Finance vs.
New Mountain Finance (NASDAQ:NMFC) and DNP Select Income Fund (NYSE:DNP) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
New Mountain Finance has a net margin of 30.28% compared to DNP Select Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. New Mountain Finance's return on equity of 11.25% beat DNP Select Income Fund's return on equity.
New Mountain Finance presently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.94%. Given New Mountain Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe New Mountain Finance is more favorable than DNP Select Income Fund.
32.1% of New Mountain Finance shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.5% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 10.2% of New Mountain Finance shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
New Mountain Finance has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DNP Select Income Fund.
In the previous week, New Mountain Finance had 2 more articles in the media than DNP Select Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for New Mountain Finance and 3 mentions for DNP Select Income Fund. DNP Select Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat New Mountain Finance's score of 1.21 indicating that DNP Select Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Mountain Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.1%. DNP Select Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. New Mountain Finance pays out 123.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
DNP Select Income Fund received 188 more outperform votes than New Mountain Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.80% of users gave DNP Select Income Fund an outperform vote while only 24.00% of users gave New Mountain Finance an outperform vote.
New Mountain Finance has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DNP Select Income Fund has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
New Mountain Finance beats DNP Select Income Fund on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NMFC) was last updated on 4/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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