Contrasting MSC Income Fund (MSIF) & Its Competitors

MSC Income Fund (NYSE:MSIF) is one of 1,746 publicly-traded companies in the “Capital Markets” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare MSC Income Fund to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

30.5% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are held by institutional investors. 13.0% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent ratings and recommmendations for MSC Income Fund and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
MSC Income Fund	0	3	2	1	2.67
MSC Income Fund Competitors	5406	19760	21962	618	2.37

MSC Income Fund presently has a consensus price target of $13.88, suggesting a potential upside of 15.60%. As a group, “Capital Markets” companies have a potential upside of 31.22%. Given MSC Income Fund’s peers higher possible upside, analysts clearly 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	277.62%	78.81%	3.55%

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
MSC Income Fund	$110.26 million	N/A	-3,638.38
MSC Income Fund Competitors	$2.38 billion	$396.49 million	8.12

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.

Summary

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