EMF vs. NPV, OXSQ, VBF, INSI, MPV, VTN, TDF, BKN, MPA, and NNY
Should you be buying Templeton Emerging Markets Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Templeton Emerging Markets Fund include Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), Invesco Bond Fund (VBF), Insight Select Income Fund (INSI), Barings Participation Investors (MPV), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals (VTN), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (MPA), and Nuveen New York Municipal Value Fund (NNY). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NPV) and Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (NYSE:EMF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
11.7% of Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of Templeton Emerging Markets Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Templeton Emerging Markets Fund received 12 more outperform votes than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.57% of users gave Templeton Emerging Markets Fund an outperform vote while only 63.04% of users gave Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Templeton Emerging Markets Fund had 2 more articles in the media than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Templeton Emerging Markets Fund and 1 mentions for Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund. Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.72 beat Templeton Emerging Markets Fund's score of 0.59 indicating that Templeton Emerging Markets Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Templeton Emerging Markets Fund has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Templeton Emerging Markets Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Templeton Emerging Markets Fund has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Templeton Emerging Markets Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Templeton Emerging Markets Fund beats Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund on 8 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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