GAM vs. QQQX, MUC, CET, MFIC, MQY, SLRC, STEW, HQH, MYI, and PHK
Should you be buying General American Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of General American Investors include Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), Central Securities (CET), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), SLR Investment (SLRC), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), and PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (NASDAQ:QQQX) and General American Investors (NYSE:GAM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, earnings and media sentiment.
Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. General American Investors pays an annual dividend of $2.65 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. General American Investors has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its stock price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, General American Investors has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its stock price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund and Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund both had 4 articles in the media. General American Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.37 beat Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund's score of 0.07 indicating that Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
General American Investors received 95 more outperform votes than Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
23.6% of Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.9% of General American Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of General American Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
General American Investors beats Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund on 4 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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