Reviewing MSC Income Fund (MSIF) & The Competition

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

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its peers revenue, earnings per share 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 peers have higher revenue and earnings than MSC Income Fund. MSC Income Fund 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.

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

Profitability

This table compares MSC Income Fund and its peers’ 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%

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for MSC Income Fund and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

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

Summary

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