Financial Comparison: Neostellar Capital (NSLR) & Its Peers

Neostellar Capital (NASDAQ:NSLR) is one of 342 publicly-traded companies in the “Financial Services” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its competitors? We will compare Neostellar Capital to related businesses based on the strength of its risk, earnings, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.

Volatility and Risk

Neostellar Capital has a beta of 1.47, meaning that its stock price is 47% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Neostellar Capital’s competitors have a beta of 2.49, meaning that their average stock price is 149% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Neostellar Capital and its competitors, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Neostellar Capital	0	1	4	1	3.00
Neostellar Capital Competitors	1970	6870	11619	443	2.50

Neostellar Capital currently has a consensus target price of $13.00, indicating a potential upside of 119.22%. As a group, “Financial Services” companies have a potential downside of 1.58%. Given Neostellar Capital’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Neostellar Capital is more favorable than its competitors.

Dividends

Neostellar Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Neostellar Capital pays out 6.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Financial Services” companies pay a dividend yield of 4.2% and pay out -88.3% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Neostellar Capital lags its competitors as a dividend stock, given its lower dividend yield and higher payout ratio.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Neostellar Capital and its competitors revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Neostellar Capital	$1.69 million	$48.81 million	1.47
Neostellar Capital Competitors	$6.32 billion	$1.07 billion	8.38

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

13.0% of Neostellar Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Neostellar Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.9% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Neostellar Capital and its competitors’ 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	-409.62%	-15.98%	-6.09%

Summary

Neostellar Capital competitors beat Neostellar Capital on 8 of the 14 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.