OXSQ vs. NPV, EMF, MPV, GGT, BKN, MPA, NNY, TDF, PIM, and TSI
Should you be buying Oxford Square Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oxford Square Capital include Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), Barings Participation Investors (MPV), The Gabelli Multimedia Trust (GGT), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (MPA), Nuveen New York Municipal Value Fund (NNY), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (PIM), and TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NPV) and Oxford Square Capital (NASDAQ:OXSQ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.
Oxford Square Capital has a net margin of 18.57% compared to Oxford Square Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund's return on equity of 17.71% beat Oxford Square Capital's return on equity.
11.7% of Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.4% of Oxford Square Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.6% of Oxford Square Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Oxford Square Capital has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Oxford Square Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Oxford Square Capital and 2 mentions for Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund. Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Oxford Square Capital's score of 0.30 indicating that Oxford Square Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund received 23 more outperform votes than Oxford Square Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.04% of users gave Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote while only 59.24% of users gave Oxford Square Capital an outperform vote.
Oxford Square Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund.
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Oxford Square Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.6%. Oxford Square Capital pays out 247.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
Oxford Square Capital beats Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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