IFN vs. USA, NUV, GSBD, RVT, TY, GAB, STEW, CET, QQQX, and GAM
Should you be buying The India Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The India Fund include Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Royce Value Trust (RVT), Tri-Continental (TY), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Central Securities (CET), Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX), and General American Investors (GAM). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) and The India Fund (NYSE:IFN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund received 180 more outperform votes than The India Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote while only 67.14% of users gave The India Fund an outperform vote.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The India Fund has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, The India Fund had 2 more articles in the media than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for The India Fund and 2 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. The India Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's score of 0.74 indicating that Liberty All-Star Equity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. The India Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
10.0% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.8% of The India Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund beats The India Fund on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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