Comparing Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ) & Its Peers

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oxford Square Capital	-85.01%	14.30%	6.64%
Oxford Square Capital Competitors	-338.89%	-39.94%	-5.83%

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Oxford Square Capital and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Oxford Square Capital	1	0	0	0	1.00
Oxford Square Capital Competitors	1988	6946	11713	446	2.50

As a group, “Financial Services” companies have a potential downside of 6.28%. Given Oxford Square Capital’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Oxford Square Capital has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

6.4% of Oxford Square Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.0% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are owned by institutional investors. 6.5% of Oxford Square Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.8% of shares of all “Financial Services” companies are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Oxford Square Capital and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oxford Square Capital	$40.34 million	-$18.73 million	-2.13
Oxford Square Capital Competitors	$6.38 billion	$1.09 billion	10.06

Oxford Square Capital’s peers have higher revenue and earnings than Oxford Square Capital. Oxford Square 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.

Dividends

Oxford Square Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 48.1%. Oxford Square Capital pays out -102.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Financial Services” companies pay a dividend yield of 4.3% and pay out -72.2% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Oxford Square Capital is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Volatility & Risk

Oxford Square Capital has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oxford Square Capital’s peers have a beta of 2.50, suggesting that their average stock price is 150% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Oxford Square Capital peers beat Oxford Square Capital on 10 of the 15 factors compared.

About Oxford Square Capital

Oxford Square Capital Corp. is a business development company, operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. It is a private equity and mezzanine firm. The firm invests in both public and private companies. It invests in secured and unsecured senior debt, subordinated debt, junior subordinated debt, preferred stock, common stock and syndicated bank loans. The firm primarily invests in debt and/or equity securities of technology-related companies that operate in the computer software, Internet, information technology infrastructure and services, media, telecommunications and telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, hardware, technology-enabled services, semiconductor capital equipment, medical device technology, diversified technology, and networking systems sectors. It concentrates its investments in companies having annual revenues of less than $200 million and a market capitalization or enterprise value of less than $300 million. The firm invests between $5 million and $30 million per transaction. It seeks to exit its investments within 7 years. It serves as the investment adviser to TICC. Oxford Square Capital Corp., formerly known as TICC Capital Corp., was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.