BCV vs. NXC, NMI, JEQ, SWZ, NMT, SSSS, CEV, PCM, MGF, and PFO
Should you be buying Bancroft Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bancroft Fund include Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXC), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), Abrdn Japan Equity Fund (JEQ), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), SuRo Capital (SSSS), Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (CEV), PCM Fund (PCM), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), and Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NYSE:NXC) and Bancroft Fund (NYSE:BCV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio pays an annual dividend of $0.53 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Bancroft Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%.
Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio and Bancroft Fund both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bancroft Fund has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
11.9% of Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.4% of Bancroft Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.1% of Bancroft Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Bancroft Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Bancroft Fund and 0 mentions for Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio's average media sentiment score of 1.77 beat Bancroft Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Bancroft Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Bancroft Fund beats Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio on 6 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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