MPV vs. GGT, MPA, NNY, PIM, OXSQ, DMF, NPV, EMF, NAZ, and BKN
Should you be buying Barings Participation Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings Participation Investors include The Gabelli Multimedia Trust (GGT), BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (MPA), Nuveen New York Municipal Value Fund (NNY), Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (PIM), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), BNY Mellon Municipal Income (DMF), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NAZ), and BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust (NYSE:GGT) and Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, risk, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust has a beta of 1.21, meaning that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
10.6% of The Gabelli Multimedia Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.2% of The Gabelli Multimedia Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Barings Participation Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, The Gabelli Multimedia Trust and The Gabelli Multimedia Trust both had 2 articles in the media. The Gabelli Multimedia Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Barings Participation Investors' score of 1.33 indicating that Barings Participation Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust received 54 more outperform votes than Barings Participation Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.16% of users gave The Gabelli Multimedia Trust an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Barings Participation Investors an outperform vote.
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.4%. Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Barings Participation Investors has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Summary
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust beats Barings Participation Investors on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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