Equus Total Return (EQS) Competitors

Mexico Equity & Income Fund (NYSE:MXE) and Equus Total Return (NYSE:EQS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings and institutional ownership.

Which has higher earnings & valuation, MXE or EQS?

Equus Total Return has higher revenue and earnings than Mexico Equity & Income Fund.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Mexico Equity & Income Fund	-$14.92M	-2.90	N/A	N/A	N/A
Equus Total Return	-$14.33M	-0.93	$12.95M	-$0.95	-1.04

Is MXE or EQS more profitable?

Mexico Equity & Income Fund has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Equus Total Return's net margin of -621.28%. Mexico Equity & Income Fund's return on equity of 0.00% beat Equus Total Return's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Mexico Equity & Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Equus Total Return	-621.28%	-7.73%	-3.63%

Which has more risk & volatility, MXE or EQS?

Mexico Equity & Income Fund has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Equus Total Return has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in MXE or EQS?

Equus Total Return received 25 more outperform votes than Mexico Equity & Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 76.42% of users gave Mexico Equity & Income Fund an outperform vote while only 63.10% of users gave Equus Total Return an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Mexico Equity & Income Fund	Outperform Votes 81 76.42%	Underperform Votes 25 23.58%
Equus Total Return	Outperform Votes 106 63.10%	Underperform Votes 62 36.90%

Does the media refer more to MXE or EQS?

In the previous week, Equus Total Return had 7 more articles in the media than Mexico Equity & Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Equus Total Return and 0 mentions for Mexico Equity & Income Fund. Equus Total Return's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Mexico Equity & Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Equus Total Return is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Mexico Equity & Income Fund	Neutral
Equus Total Return	Positive

Summary

Mexico Equity & Income Fund and Equus Total Return tied by winning 5 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.