Barings BDC (BBDC) Competitors

DNP Select Income Fund (NYSE:DNP) and Barings BDC (NYSE:BBDC) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.

Do analysts recommend DNP or BBDC?

Barings BDC has a consensus target price of $10.00, suggesting a potential downside of 0.70%. Given Barings BDC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Barings BDC is more favorable than DNP Select Income Fund.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
DNP Select Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Barings BDC	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is DNP or BBDC a better dividend stock?

DNP Select Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Barings BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Barings BDC pays out 96.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in DNP or BBDC?

8.5% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 44.1% of Barings BDC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Barings BDC shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has better earnings and valuation, DNP or BBDC?

Barings BDC has higher revenue and earnings than DNP Select Income Fund.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
DNP Select Income Fund	-$131.43M	-25.23	N/A	N/A	N/A
Barings BDC	$289.20M	3.68	$128M	$1.08	9.32

Which has more volatility and risk, DNP or BBDC?

DNP Select Income Fund has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its share price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings BDC has a beta of 0.67, suggesting that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media favor DNP or BBDC?

In the previous week, Barings BDC had 1 more articles in the media than DNP Select Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Barings BDC and 1 mentions for DNP Select Income Fund. Barings BDC's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat DNP Select Income Fund's score of 1.74 indicating that Barings BDC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
DNP Select Income Fund	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Barings BDC	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer DNP or BBDC?

DNP Select Income Fund received 91 more outperform votes than Barings BDC when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.80% of users gave DNP Select Income Fund an outperform vote while only 57.87% of users gave Barings BDC an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
DNP Select Income Fund	Outperform Votes 194 70.80%	Underperform Votes 80 29.20%
Barings BDC	Outperform Votes 103 57.87%	Underperform Votes 75 42.13%

Is DNP or BBDC more profitable?

Barings BDC has a net margin of 39.59% compared to DNP Select Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Barings BDC's return on equity of 11.24% beat DNP Select Income Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
DNP Select Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Barings BDC	39.59%	11.24%	5.10%

Summary

Barings BDC beats DNP Select Income Fund on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.