Both Stellus Capital Investment Corporation (NYSE:SCM) and Great Elm Capital Corp. (NASDAQ:GECC) are each other’s competitor in the Asset Management industry. Thus the compare of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership.

Valuation & Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Stellus Capital Investment Corporation	47.43M	4.92	28.74M	1.61	8.37
Great Elm Capital Corp.	30.55M	2.88	8.53M	-0.47	0.00

Table 1 demonstrates Stellus Capital Investment Corporation and Great Elm Capital Corp.’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 demonstrates the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of Stellus Capital Investment Corporation and Great Elm Capital Corp.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Stellus Capital Investment Corporation	60.59%	0%	0%
Great Elm Capital Corp.	27.92%	0%	0%

Dividends

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation pays out an annual dividend of $1.36 per share while its dividend yield is 9.33%. Great Elm Capital Corp. has an annual dividend pay of $0.99 per share while its annual dividend yield is 11.98%.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

The shares of both Stellus Capital Investment Corporation and Great Elm Capital Corp. are owned by institutional investors at 22.1% and 57.59% respectively. About 5.47% of Stellus Capital Investment Corporation’s share are owned by insiders. On the other hand, insiders owned about 18.75% of Great Elm Capital Corp.’s shares.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Stellus Capital Investment Corporation	-1.47%	2.83%	-2.18%	2.52%	7.52%	2.28%
Great Elm Capital Corp.	-4.64%	-1.6%	-20.38%	-14.51%	-15.16%	-18.6%

For the past year Stellus Capital Investment Corporation had bullish trend while Great Elm Capital Corp. had bearish trend.

Summary

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation beats on 10 of the 10 factors Great Elm Capital Corp.

Stellus Capital Investment Corporation is a business development company specializing in investments in private middle-market companies. It invests through first lien, second lien, unitranche, and mezzanine debt financing, often with a corresponding equity investment. The fund seeks to invest in companies with an EBITDA between $5 million and $50 million.