DSM vs. PFLT, BCSF, MUC, BBDC, AWF, HQH, PHK, ASA, CGBD, and BTO
Should you be buying BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund include PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), Barings BDC (BBDC), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), and John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund vs. Its Competitors
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund (NYSE:DSM) and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NASDAQ:PFLT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation and risk.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund has a beta of 0.73, suggesting that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a beta of 0.96, suggesting that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund and BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund both had 1 articles in the media. BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's score of 0.78 indicating that BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a consensus price target of $11.08, suggesting a potential upside of 5.66%. Given PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is more favorable than BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital received 95 more outperform votes than BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 71.11% of users gave BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund an outperform vote while only 49.04% of users gave PennantPark Floating Rate Capital an outperform vote.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a net margin of 45.36% compared to BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund's net margin of 0.00%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's return on equity of 10.76% beat BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund's return on equity.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has higher revenue and earnings than BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund.
19.8% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital 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.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays out 136.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Summary
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital beats BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund on 13 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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