DSU vs. USA, RVT, GSBD, TY, GAB, STEW, CET, GAM, QQQX, and MUC
Should you be buying BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund include Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Royce Value Trust (RVT), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Tri-Continental (TY), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Central Securities (CET), General American Investors (GAM), Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX), and BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (NYSE:DSU) and Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, valuation, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.15 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%.
24.3% of BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.0% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by 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.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund received 210 more outperform votes than BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote while only 63.13% of users gave BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Liberty All-Star Equity Fund had 2 more articles in the media than BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund and 3 mentions for BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund's score of -0.47 indicating that Liberty All-Star Equity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund beats BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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