Barings Participation Investors (MPV) Competitors

Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) and Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.

Which has more risk & volatility, CGBD or MPV?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of CGBD or MPV?

24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Barings Participation Investors shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Do analysts recommend CGBD or MPV?

Carlyle Secured Lending currently has a consensus price target of $15.25, suggesting a potential upside of 11.31%. Given Carlyle Secured Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Carlyle Secured Lending is more favorable than Barings Participation Investors.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Carlyle Secured Lending	2 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	1.83
Barings Participation Investors	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Is CGBD or MPV more profitable?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a net margin of 32.72% compared to Barings Participation Investors' net margin of 0.00%. Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity of 10.49% beat Barings Participation Investors' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Carlyle Secured Lending	32.72%	10.49%	4.88%
Barings Participation Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is CGBD or MPV a better dividend stock?

Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays out 118.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has better valuation and earnings, CGBD or MPV?

Carlyle Secured Lending has higher revenue and earnings than Barings Participation Investors.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Carlyle Secured Lending	$232.59M	3.00	$88.98M	$1.35	10.15
Barings Participation Investors	$18.78M	10.85	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media prefer CGBD or MPV?

In the previous week, Carlyle Secured Lending had 3 more articles in the media than Barings Participation Investors. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending and 0 mentions for Barings Participation Investors. Carlyle Secured Lending's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat Barings Participation Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Carlyle Secured Lending is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Carlyle Secured Lending	Positive
Barings Participation Investors	Neutral

Summary

Carlyle Secured Lending beats Barings Participation Investors on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.