MPA vs. PEO, MUJ, BTO, VGM, IFN, VKQ, DSU, MYD, VCV, and RMT
Should you be buying BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund include Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals (VGM), The India Fund (IFN), Invesco Municipal Trust (VKQ), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (DSU), BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD), Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust (VCV), and Royce Micro-Cap Trust (RMT). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (NYSE:MPA) and Adams Natural Resources Fund (NYSE:PEO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Adams Natural Resources Fund received 91 more outperform votes than BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.14% of users gave Adams Natural Resources Fund an outperform vote while only 69.42% of users gave BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Adams Natural Resources Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund and 1 mentions for Adams Natural Resources Fund. Adams Natural Resources Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund's score of -0.13 indicating that Adams Natural Resources Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
24.7% of BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.5% of Adams Natural Resources Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Adams Natural Resources Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.49 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Adams Natural Resources Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%.
BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adams Natural Resources Fund has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Adams Natural Resources Fund beats BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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