RMT vs. USA, NUV, GSBD, GAB, TY, RVT, STEW, CET, QQQX, and GAM
Should you be buying Royce Micro-Cap Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royce Micro-Cap Trust include Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Tri-Continental (TY), Royce Value Trust (RVT), 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 Royce Micro-Cap Trust (NYSE:RMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Royce Micro-Cap Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. 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 held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.0% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund received 237 more outperform votes than Royce Micro-Cap Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote while only 68.25% of users gave Royce Micro-Cap Trust an outperform vote.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royce Micro-Cap Trust has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Royce Micro-Cap Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Royce Micro-Cap Trust and 2 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Royce Micro-Cap Trust's score of 1.12 indicating that Royce Micro-Cap Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Royce Micro-Cap Trust beats Liberty All-Star Equity Fund on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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