Financial Comparison: Neostellar Capital (NSLR) vs. Its Competitors

Neostellar Capital (NASDAQ:NSLR) is one of 341 publicly-traded companies in the “Financial Services” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Neostellar Capital to similar businesses based on the strength of its profitability, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings for Neostellar Capital and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Neostellar Capital	0	1	4	1	3.00
Neostellar Capital Competitors	1987	6945	11711	445	2.50

Neostellar Capital currently has a consensus target price of $12.75, indicating a potential upside of 121.35%. As a group, “Financial Services” companies have a potential downside of 6.28%. Given Neostellar Capital’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Neostellar Capital is more favorable than its peers.

Dividends

Neostellar Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Neostellar Capital pays out 8.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Financial Services” companies pay a dividend yield of 4.1% and pay out -93.6% of their earnings in the form of a dividend.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

13.0% of Neostellar Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of Neostellar Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.9% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

Neostellar Capital has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Neostellar Capital’s peers have a beta of 2.51, suggesting that their average share price is 151% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Neostellar Capital and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Neostellar Capital	6,053.56%	-12.63%	-10.14%
Neostellar Capital Competitors	-409.42%	-15.09%	-6.08%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Neostellar Capital and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Neostellar Capital	$1.69 million	$48.81 million	1.95
Neostellar Capital Competitors	$6.73 billion	$1.10 billion	7.35

Neostellar Capital’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Neostellar Capital. Neostellar Capital 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

Neostellar Capital peers beat Neostellar Capital on 8 of the 15 factors compared.

Neostellar Capital Company Profile

SuRo Capital Corp. is a business development company. The firm seeks to invest in growing, late stage, venture capital-backed private companies. SuRo Capital Corp. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.