Its investment objective is to generate current income and, to a lesser extent, long-term capital appreciation. It predominantly invests in directly originated and privately negotiated first lien senior secured loans to privately held U.S. middle-market companies, and in other types of securities including, first lien unitranche, second lien senior secured, unsecured, subordinated, and mezzanine loans, and equities in both private and public middle market companies.
We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.
The chart below shows how we grade MidCap Financial (MFIC) across the board compared to its closest peers.
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Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.
See how MidCap Financial compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.
Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $11.50 - $13.00 with an average of $12.19
Recent Ratings for MidCap Financial (MFIC)
Ideally, we would like to see a company have a long history of consistently high dividend payouts that have grown at a consistent rate. From here we want to be confident that this sort of dividend growth and consistency will persist into the future.
The chart below shows the historical trend in MidCap Financial (MFIC) dividend yield on an annual basis.
The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility
Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.
This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.
MidCap Financial (MFIC) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -0.2372 which is considered to be above average compared to the peer average of -0.4693
