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Bancroft Fund (BCV) Competitors

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$17.77 +0.04 (+0.23%)
Closing price 05/22/2025 03:55 PM Eastern
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BCV vs. NQP, MUA, PPT, RFI, PMO, HCAI, RCS, PMM, OIA, and DOGZ

Should you be buying Bancroft Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bancroft Fund include Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Putnam Premier Income Trust (PPT), Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund (RFI), Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust (PMO), Huachen AI Parking Management Technology (HCAI), PIMCO Strategic Income Fund (RCS), Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (PMM), Invesco Municipal Income Opportunities Trust (OIA), and Dogness (International) (DOGZ). These companies are all part of the "misc." industry.

Bancroft Fund vs.

Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NQP) and Bancroft Fund (NYSE:BCV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability and risk.

Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bancroft Fund has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund$32.93M12.46N/AN/AN/A
Bancroft Fund$14.40M7.23N/AN/AN/A

Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%. Bancroft Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.2%.

Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund received 104 more outperform votes than Bancroft Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income FundOutperform Votes
104
65.41%
Underperform Votes
55
34.59%
Bancroft FundN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income FundN/A N/A N/A
Bancroft Fund N/A N/A N/A

30.6% of Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.4% of Bancroft Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Bancroft Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Bancroft Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Bancroft Fund and 0 mentions for Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund. Bancroft Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Bancroft Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund Neutral
Bancroft Fund Positive

Summary

Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund beats Bancroft Fund on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BCV vs. The Competition

MetricBancroft FundInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$104.17M$6.92B$11.48B$19.29B
Dividend Yield7.07%6.79%5.45%3.83%
P/E RatioN/A3.5722.4234.52
Price / Sales7.2321.8627.6034.82
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.51
Price / BookN/A0.882.774.69
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.61%-0.92%-1.34%-2.43%
1 Month Performance8.99%2.85%5.23%6.27%
1 Year Performance14.08%0.98%538.04%5.78%

Bancroft Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BCV
Bancroft Fund
N/A$17.77
+0.2%
N/A+13.6%$104.17M$14.40M0.00N/APositive News
NQP
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund
N/A$11.07
-0.7%
N/A-6.4%$412.05M$32.93M0.00147,000
MUA
BlackRock MuniAssets Fund
N/A$10.40
+0.5%
N/A-7.9%$402.11M$35.87M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
PPT
Putnam Premier Income Trust
N/A$3.58
-2.2%
N/A+1.6%$344.64M$22.60M0.00N/APositive News
High Trading Volume
RFI
Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund
N/A$12.11
-0.1%
N/A+2.3%$323.24M$17.51M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
PMO
Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust
N/A$10.02
-0.9%
N/A-2.3%$318.75M$69.50M0.00801Positive News
HCAI
Huachen AI Parking Management Technology
N/A$10.00
+7.0%
N/AN/A$315M$53.68M0.0073Gap Up
High Trading Volume
RCS
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund
N/A$6.20
-1.3%
N/A+3.2%$285.64M$28.89M0.00N/A
PMM
Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust
N/A$5.98
-0.7%
N/A-1.5%$277.66M$67.33M0.00N/APositive News
Dividend Increase
OIA
Invesco Municipal Income Opportunities Trust
N/A$5.82
-0.5%
N/A-9.7%$277.22M$17.92M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
DOGZ
Dogness (International)
0.6116 of 5 stars
$21.75
+19.5%
N/A+90.9%$276.90M$20.26M0.00320

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