Barings Corporate Investors (NYSE:MCI) vs. T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ:TROW) Financial Survey

Barings Corporate Investors (NYSE:MCI) and T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ:TROW) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Barings Corporate Investors and T. Rowe Price Group, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Barings Corporate Investors	0	0	0	0	0.00
T. Rowe Price Group	4	8	0	0	1.67

T. Rowe Price Group has a consensus price target of $96.64, suggesting a potential downside of 8.64%. Given T. Rowe Price Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe T. Rowe Price Group is more favorable than Barings Corporate Investors.

Risk and Volatility

Barings Corporate Investors has a beta of 0.35, suggesting that its share price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, T. Rowe Price Group has a beta of 1.49, suggesting that its share price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Barings Corporate Investors and T. Rowe Price Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Barings Corporate Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A
T. Rowe Price Group	28.38%	20.17%	15.48%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Barings Corporate Investors and T. Rowe Price Group”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Barings Corporate Investors	$37.92 million	11.57	N/A	N/A	N/A
T. Rowe Price Group	$7.09 billion	3.29	$2.10 billion	$8.82	11.99

T. Rowe Price Group has higher revenue and earnings than Barings Corporate Investors.

Dividends

Barings Corporate Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. T. Rowe Price Group pays an annual dividend of $5.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. T. Rowe Price Group pays out 57.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. T. Rowe Price Group has increased its dividend for 39 consecutive years.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

73.4% of T. Rowe Price Group shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Barings Corporate Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of T. Rowe Price Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Summary

T. Rowe Price Group beats Barings Corporate Investors on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Barings Corporate Investors

Babson Capital Corporate Investors trust is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by Barings LLC. It invests in fixed income markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in securities of companies operating across diversified sectors. It primarily invests in a portfolio of privately placed, below-investment grade, long term corporate debt obligations. The fund also invests in marketable investment grade debt securities, other marketable debt securities, and marketable common stocks. It was formerly known as Babson Capital Corporate Investors. Babson Capital Corporate Investors trust was formed in 1971 and is domiciled in the United States.

About T. Rowe Price Group

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to individuals, institutional investors, retirement plans, financial intermediaries, and institutions. It launches and manages equity and fixed income mutual funds. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a bottom-up approach. The firm utilizes in-house and external research to make its investments. It employs socially responsible investing with a focus on environmental, social, and governance issues. It makes investment in late-stage venture capital transactions and usually invests between $3 million and $5 million. The firm was previously known as T. Rowe Group, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland, with additional offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Owings Mills, Maryland; San Francisco, California; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Tampa, Florida; Toronto, Ontario; Hellerup, Denmark; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; Zurich, Switzerland; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; London, United Kingdom; Sydney, New South Wales; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Singapore; Frankfurt, Shanghai, China; Germany, Madrid, Spain, Milan, Italy, Stockholm, Sweden, Melbourne, Australia, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Washington, DC.