MSC Income Fund (MSIF) and The Competition Financial Analysis

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

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its rivals top-line revenue, earnings per share 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 rivals have higher revenue and earnings than MSC Income Fund. MSC Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings for MSC Income Fund and its rivals, as reported 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 price target of $13.88, indicating a potential upside of 9.86%. As a group, “Capital Markets” companies have a potential upside of 22.20%. Given MSC Income Fund’s rivals higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe MSC Income Fund has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its rivals’ 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%

Insider & 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

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