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$18.23 -0.11 (-0.60%)
Closing price 08/1/2025 03:55 PM Eastern
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RAND vs. SSSS, MPV, FT, NPV, DHF, VPV, OXSQ, SPE, MSD, and NNY

Should you be buying Rand Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rand Capital include SURO Capital (SSSS), Barings Participation Investors (MPV), Franklin Universal Trust (FT), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (DHF), INV VK PA VALU (VPV), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), Special Opportunities Fund (SPE), Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund (MSD), and Nuveen New York Municipal Valu (NNY). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Rand Capital vs. Its Competitors

SURO Capital (NASDAQ:SSSS) and Rand Capital (NASDAQ:RAND) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.

SURO Capital presently has a consensus target price of $10.00, indicating a potential upside of 20.92%. Given SURO Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe SURO Capital is more favorable than Rand Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
SURO Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Rand Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

SURO Capital has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its share price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rand Capital has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500.

13.0% of SURO Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 6.7% of SURO Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 68.2% of Rand Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

SURO Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.1%. Rand Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. SURO Capital pays out -52.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rand Capital pays out 36.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. SURO Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, Rand Capital had 2 more articles in the media than SURO Capital. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Rand Capital and 3 mentions for SURO Capital. Rand Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat SURO Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Rand Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
SURO Capital
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Rand Capital
2 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Rand Capital has a net margin of 97.28% compared to SURO Capital's net margin of -462.84%. Rand Capital's return on equity of 6.89% beat SURO Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
SURO Capital-462.84% -6.61% -4.48%
Rand Capital 97.28%6.89%5.98%

Rand Capital has higher revenue and earnings than SURO Capital. SURO Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rand Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
SURO Capital$4.67M42.31-$38.12M-$1.89-4.38
Rand Capital$9.61M5.63$8.83M$3.175.75

Summary

Rand Capital beats SURO Capital on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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RAND vs. The Competition

MetricRand CapitalFIN IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$54.12M$1.44B$12.04B$9.51B
Dividend Yield6.30%11.08%5.62%4.09%
P/E Ratio5.7517.2519.7423.80
Price / Sales5.6358.7625.9266.58
Price / Cash10.6811.3221.3357.96
Price / Book0.720.932.095.55
Net Income$8.83M$144.88M$1.00B$259.03M
7 Day Performance-2.95%-3.28%-2.46%-4.59%
1 Month Performance11.98%-0.30%-0.96%4.46%
1 Year Performance6.14%-4.55%537.06%18.03%

Rand Capital Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RAND
Rand Capital
3.5926 of 5 stars
$18.23
-0.6%
N/A+6.0%$54.12M$9.61M5.755News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
SSSS
SURO Capital
1.4654 of 5 stars
$8.32
-2.1%
$10.00
+20.2%
+109.4%$203.05M-$3.72M-4.409Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
MPV
Barings Participation Investors
N/A$18.93
+0.2%
N/A+18.0%$200.66MN/A0.00900
FT
Franklin Universal Trust
N/A$7.82
+0.1%
N/A+10.4%$196.28MN/A0.00N/A
NPV
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund
N/A$10.91
flat
N/A-7.5%$195.64MN/A0.00N/AUpcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
DHF
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund
N/A$2.58
+0.2%
N/A+0.2%$187.30M$16.31M0.00N/A
VPV
INV VK PA VALU
N/A$9.94
-0.1%
N/A-8.6%$177.83MN/A0.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
OXSQ
Oxford Square Capital
1.5601 of 5 stars
$2.33
flat
N/A-23.3%$177.14M$42.68M233.00N/ANews Coverage
SPE
Special Opportunities Fund
N/A$15.41
-0.8%
N/A+11.6%$173.71MN/A0.00N/APositive News
MSD
Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund
N/A$7.50
-0.1%
N/A-2.5%$152.33MN/A0.00N/A
NNY
Nuveen New York Municipal Valu
N/A$7.99
0.0%
N/A-3.9%$150.90MN/A0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
High Trading Volume

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This page (NASDAQ:RAND) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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