ASG vs. NMFC, BCSF, BBDC, MUC, AWF, PFLT, CGBD, HQH, BTO, and PHK
Should you be buying Liberty All-Star Growth Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty All-Star Growth Fund include New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Barings BDC (BBDC), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), and PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Liberty All-Star Growth Fund vs.
New Mountain Finance (NASDAQ:NMFC) and Liberty All-Star Growth Fund (NYSE:ASG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, earnings, risk, institutional ownership, dividends and valuation.
New Mountain Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Liberty All-Star Growth Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. 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.
New Mountain Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty All-Star Growth Fund.
New Mountain Finance has a beta of 1.15, suggesting that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty All-Star Growth Fund has a beta of 1.35, suggesting that its stock price is 35% more volatile than the S&P 500.
New Mountain Finance currently has a consensus price target of $11.00, indicating a potential downside of 8.18%. Given New Mountain Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe New Mountain Finance is more favorable than Liberty All-Star Growth Fund.
In the previous week, New Mountain Finance had 1 more articles in the media than Liberty All-Star Growth Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for New Mountain Finance and 0 mentions for Liberty All-Star Growth Fund. New Mountain Finance's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Liberty All-Star Growth Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that New Mountain Finance is being referred to more favorably in the media.
New Mountain Finance has a net margin of 30.28% compared to Liberty All-Star Growth Fund's net margin of 0.00%. New Mountain Finance's return on equity of 11.25% beat Liberty All-Star Growth Fund's return on equity.
Liberty All-Star Growth Fund received 93 more outperform votes than New Mountain Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.23% of users gave Liberty All-Star Growth 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, 21.6% of Liberty All-Star Growth Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.2% of New Mountain Finance shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Liberty All-Star Growth Fund shares are owned 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
New Mountain Finance beats Liberty All-Star Growth Fund on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:ASG) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
