NMFC vs. DNP, ADX, PTY, USA, RVT, OXLC, BCAT, GAB, STEW, and GSBD
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), Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Royce Value Trust (RVT), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), and Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD). 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 investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.
New Mountain Finance has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DNP Select Income Fund has a beta of 0.51, indicating that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. 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 121.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, DNP Select Income Fund had 6 more articles in the media than New Mountain Finance. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for DNP Select Income Fund and 1 mentions for New Mountain Finance. DNP Select Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat New Mountain Finance's score of 0.97 indicating that DNP Select Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Mountain Finance has higher revenue and earnings than DNP Select Income Fund.
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 25.00% of users gave New Mountain Finance an outperform vote.
32.1% of New Mountain Finance shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.5% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of New Mountain Finance shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
New Mountain Finance currently has a consensus target price of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.18%. Given New Mountain Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe New Mountain Finance is more favorable than DNP Select Income Fund.
Summary
New Mountain Finance beats DNP Select Income Fund on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:NMFC) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
