Contrasting MSC Income Fund (MSIF) & The Competition

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for MSC Income Fund and its competitors, 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	5336	19675	21877	612	2.37

MSC Income Fund presently has a consensus target price of $13.88, suggesting a potential upside of 9.86%. As a group, “Capital Markets” companies have a potential upside of 22.20%. Given MSC Income Fund’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe MSC Income Fund has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Valuation and Earnings

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

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
MSC Income Fund	$110.26 million	N/A	-3,828.43
MSC Income Fund Competitors	$2.39 billion	$397.44 million	10.46

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.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

30.6% 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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.