MSC Income Fund (MSIF) & Its Competitors Head-To-Head Comparison

MSC Income Fund (NYSE:MSIF) is one of 1,748 publicly-traded companies in the “Capital Markets” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its peers? We will compare MSC Income Fund to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for MSC Income Fund and its peers, as provided 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	5375	19714	21904	614	2.37

MSC Income Fund currently has a consensus price target of $13.88, indicating a potential upside of 9.37%. As a group, “Capital Markets” companies have a potential upside of 28.56%. Given MSC Income Fund’s peers higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MSC Income Fund has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Profitability

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its peers’ 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	267.90%	78.02%	3.52%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its peers revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
MSC Income Fund	$110.26 million	N/A	-3,845.41
MSC Income Fund Competitors	$2.39 billion	$396.21 million	7.56

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

Institutional & Insider Ownership

30.5% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are owned by institutional investors. 12.9% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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