LEGH vs. VKQ, CPF, TRST, VGM, CCB, MYD, EQBK, DSU, GAIN, and RWAY
Should you be buying Legacy Housing stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Legacy Housing include Invesco Municipal Trust (VKQ), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), TrustCo Bank Corp NY (TRST), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals (VGM), Coastal Financial (CCB), BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD), Equity Bancshares (EQBK), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (DSU), Gladstone Investment (GAIN), and Runway Growth Finance (RWAY). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Legacy Housing (NASDAQ:LEGH) and Invesco Municipal Trust (NYSE:VKQ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment and risk.
Legacy Housing has a net margin of 28.79% compared to Invesco Municipal Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Legacy Housing's return on equity of 12.99% beat Invesco Municipal Trust's return on equity.
Invesco Municipal Trust received 20 more outperform votes than Legacy Housing when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.37% of users gave Invesco Municipal Trust an outperform vote while only 57.05% of users gave Legacy Housing an outperform vote.
Legacy Housing presently has a consensus target price of $25.00, indicating a potential upside of 23.76%. Given Legacy Housing's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Legacy Housing is more favorable than Invesco Municipal Trust.
89.4% of Legacy Housing shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.0% of Invesco Municipal Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 32.2% of Legacy Housing shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.4% of Invesco Municipal Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Legacy Housing has a beta of 0.94, suggesting that its share price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Invesco Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.5, suggesting that its share price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Legacy Housing has higher revenue and earnings than Invesco Municipal Trust.
In the previous week, Legacy Housing had 1 more articles in the media than Invesco Municipal Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Legacy Housing and 1 mentions for Invesco Municipal Trust. Legacy Housing's average media sentiment score of 0.65 beat Invesco Municipal Trust's score of 0.48 indicating that Legacy Housing is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Legacy Housing beats Invesco Municipal Trust on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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