NPV vs. EMF, OXSQ, VTN, VBF, BKN, TDF, TSI, MPV, MQT, and MVT
Should you be buying Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund include Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals (VTN), Invesco Bond Fund (VBF), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI), Barings Participation Investors (MPV), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund II (MQT), and BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (NYSE:EMF) and Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NPV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability and media sentiment.
49.9% of Templeton Emerging Markets Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.7% of Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Templeton Emerging Markets Fund has a beta of 0.92, indicating that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Templeton Emerging Markets Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. 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 has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Templeton Emerging Markets Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Templeton Emerging Markets Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund and 1 mentions for Templeton Emerging Markets Fund. Templeton Emerging Markets Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund's score of 1.00 indicating that Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Templeton Emerging Markets Fund beats Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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