MPV vs. INSI, VBF, MPA, NNY, GGT, EMF, PIM, NPV, OXSQ, and SPE
Should you be buying Barings Participation Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings Participation Investors include Insight Select Income Fund (INSI), Invesco Bond Fund (VBF), BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (MPA), Nuveen New York Municipal Value Fund (NNY), The Gabelli Multimedia Trust (GGT), Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (PIM), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), and Special Opportunities Fund (SPE). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Insight Select Income Fund (NYSE:INSI) and Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking and media sentiment.
Insight Select Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Insight Select Income Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Barings Participation Investors has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Barings Participation Investors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Barings Participation Investors received 77 more outperform votes than Insight Select Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Insight Select Income Fund has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Insight Select Income Fund had 3 more articles in the media than Barings Participation Investors. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Insight Select Income Fund and 0 mentions for Barings Participation Investors. Barings Participation Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.24 beat Insight Select Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Insight Select Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
49.3% of Insight Select Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 18.8% of Insight Select Income Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Barings Participation Investors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Insight Select Income Fund and Barings Participation Investors tied by winning 4 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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