EQS vs. DTF, CEV, GCV, CEE, EEA, CIF, NOM, CUBA, VFL, and AWF
Should you be buying Equus Total Return stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Equus Total Return include DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund (DTF), Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (CEV), The Gabelli Convertible and Income Securities Fund (GCV), The Central and Eastern Europe Fund (CEE), The European Equity Fund (EEA), MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (CIF), Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund (NOM), The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (CUBA), abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), and AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Equus Total Return (NYSE:EQS) and DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund (NYSE:DTF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
Equus Total Return has a net margin of 2,221.48% compared to DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund's net margin of 0.00%. DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund's return on equity of 0.00% beat Equus Total Return's return on equity.
Equus Total Return has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund has a beta of 0.31, meaning that its share price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Equus Total Return. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund and 0 mentions for Equus Total Return. DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.83 beat Equus Total Return's score of 0.00 indicating that DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
43.8% of DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 30.7% of Equus Total Return shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Equus Total Return received 30 more outperform votes than DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.10% of users gave Equus Total Return an outperform vote while only 58.91% of users gave DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund an outperform vote.
Equus Total Return has higher revenue and earnings than DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund.
Summary
Equus Total Return beats DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund on 6 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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