VBF vs. MPV, OXSQ, EMF, NPV, MPA, GGT, NNY, PIM, VTN, and SPE
Should you be buying Invesco Bond Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Invesco Bond Fund include Barings Participation Investors (MPV), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (MPA), The Gabelli Multimedia Trust (GGT), Nuveen New York Municipal Value Fund (NNY), Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (PIM), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals (VTN), and Special Opportunities Fund (SPE). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Invesco Bond Fund (NYSE:VBF) and Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
In the previous week, Invesco Bond Fund and Invesco Bond Fund both had 2 articles in the media. Barings Participation Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Invesco Bond Fund's score of 0.30 indicating that Barings Participation Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Invesco Bond Fund has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its share price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
43.7% of Invesco Bond Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 20.3% of Invesco Bond Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Barings Participation Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Invesco Bond Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%.
Invesco Bond Fund received 133 more outperform votes than Barings Participation Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.23% of users gave Invesco Bond Fund an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Barings Participation Investors an outperform vote.
Summary
Invesco Bond Fund beats Barings Participation Investors on 4 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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