Critical Survey: MSC Income Fund (MSIF) & Its Competitors

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and target prices 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	5387	19741	21922	614	2.37

MSC Income Fund currently has a consensus price target of $13.88, indicating a potential upside of 14.06%. As a group, “Capital Markets” companies have a potential upside of 29.51%. Given MSC Income Fund’s competitors higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe MSC Income Fund has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Valuation & 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	-3,687.48
MSC Income Fund Competitors	$2.47 billion	$396.25 million	7.46

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.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

30.5% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are owned by institutional investors. 13.0% of shares of all “Capital Markets” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds 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	269.25%	78.21%	3.52%

Summary

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