BBDC vs. NOAH, BRDG, BSIG, ABL, PAX, FDUS, VINP, ALTI, DHIL, and VRTS
Should you be buying Barings BDC stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings BDC include Noah (NOAH), Bridge Investment Group (BRDG), BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG), Abacus Life (ABL), Patria Investments (PAX), Fidus Investment (FDUS), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), AlTi Global (ALTI), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), and Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Barings BDC (NYSE:BBDC) and Noah (NYSE:NOAH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Barings BDC has a net margin of 45.35% compared to Noah's net margin of 33.36%. Barings BDC's return on equity of 10.77% beat Noah's return on equity.
44.1% of Barings BDC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 42.7% of Noah shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Barings BDC shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 47.2% of Noah shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Barings BDC presently has a consensus target price of $9.13, suggesting a potential downside of 7.27%. Noah has a consensus target price of $18.00, suggesting a potential upside of 19.21%. Given Noah's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Noah is more favorable than Barings BDC.
Barings BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.6%. Noah pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. Barings BDC pays out 84.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Noah pays out 17.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Barings BDC had 1 more articles in the media than Noah. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Barings BDC and 2 mentions for Noah. Noah's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Barings BDC's score of 0.71 indicating that Noah is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Noah has higher revenue and earnings than Barings BDC. Noah is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Barings BDC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Barings BDC has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Noah has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Noah received 159 more outperform votes than Barings BDC when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.52% of users gave Barings BDC an outperform vote while only 58.09% of users gave Noah an outperform vote.
Summary
Noah beats Barings BDC on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BBDC and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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