MSC Income Fund (MSIF) & Its Peers Head-To-Head Analysis

MSC Income Fund (NYSE:MSIF) is one of 1,747 publicly-traded companies in the “Capital Markets” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare MSC Income Fund to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for MSC Income Fund and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MSC Income Fund	0	3	2	1	2.67
MSC Income Fund Competitors	5337	19675	21885	612	2.37

MSC Income Fund currently has a consensus price target of $13.88, indicating a potential upside of 9.73%. As a group, “Capital Markets” companies have a potential upside of 22.82%. Given MSC Income Fund’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MSC Income Fund has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
MSC Income Fund	$110.26 million	N/A	-3,832.98
MSC Income Fund Competitors	$2.40 billion	$397.44 million	10.52

MSC Income Fund’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than MSC Income Fund. MSC Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

30.6% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are held by institutional investors. 12.9% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
MSC Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSC Income Fund Competitors	267.78%	78.34%	3.56%

Summary

MSC Income Fund competitors beat MSC Income Fund on 9 of the 11 factors compared.