RAND vs. VFL, AGMH, AWF, ASA, BCSF, BBAR, BBDO, BBD, BMA, and BFACU
Should you be buying Rand Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rand Capital include abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), AGM Group (AGMH), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Banco BBVA Argentina (BBAR), Banco Bradesco (BBDO), Banco Bradesco (BBD), Banco Macro (BMA), and Battery Future Acquisition (BFACU).
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) and Rand Capital (NASDAQ:RAND) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Rand Capital has a net margin of 88.95% compared to Rand Capital's net margin of 0.00%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's return on equity of 5.39% beat Rand Capital's return on equity.
Rand Capital has lower revenue, but higher earnings than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rand Capital has a beta of 0.49, suggesting that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Rand Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Rand Capital pays out 39.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Rand Capital has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Rand Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Rand Capital had 9 more articles in the media than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Rand Capital and 0 mentions for abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. Rand Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's score of -0.23 indicating that abrdn National Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rand Capital received 119 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Rand Capital beats abrdn National Municipal Income Fund on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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