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BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO) Competitors

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$5.82 -0.08 (-1.31%)
Closing price 05/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$5.82 +0.00 (+0.03%)
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LEO vs. CET, GSBD, MFIC, NMFC, MUC, BCSF, AWF, BBDC, PFLT, and HQH

Should you be buying BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals include Central Securities (CET), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), Barings BDC (BBDC), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), and Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals vs.

BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (NYSE:LEO) and Central Securities (NYSE:CET) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.

8.7% of Central Securities shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.5% of Central Securities shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals received 139 more outperform votes than Central Securities when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BNY Mellon Strategic MunicipalsOutperform Votes
139
56.50%
Underperform Votes
107
43.50%
Central SecuritiesN/AN/A

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals$73.46M4.94N/AN/AN/A
Central Securities$296.20M4.54N/AN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BNY Mellon Strategic MunicipalsN/A N/A N/A
Central Securities N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals had 3 more articles in the media than Central Securities. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals and 1 mentions for Central Securities. Central Securities' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals' score of 1.69 indicating that Central Securities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Central Securities
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Central Securities pays an annual dividend of $2.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%.

BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Central Securities has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Central Securities beats BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LEO vs. The Competition

MetricBNY Mellon Strategic MunicipalsInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$367.52M$6.91B$11.50B$19.42B
Dividend Yield2.91%6.78%5.45%3.83%
P/E RatioN/A3.5722.4834.23
Price / Sales4.9421.8427.2934.85
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.51
Price / BookN/A0.892.794.69
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.31%-0.75%-0.02%-1.74%
1 Month Performance2.16%3.82%6.70%7.46%
1 Year Performance-2.79%0.33%537.71%3.96%

BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LEO
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals
N/A$5.82
-1.3%
N/A-3.5%$367.52M$73.46M0.00147,000Positive News
Dividend Increase
CET
Central Securities
N/A$46.45
+2.4%
N/A+7.8%$1.34B$296.20M0.006High Trading Volume
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.5101 of 5 stars
$11.07
+2.3%
$12.00
+8.5%
-27.8%$1.30B$78.71M15.81N/APositive News
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.6148 of 5 stars
$12.56
+3.4%
$13.80
+9.9%
-19.9%$1.17B$110.35M8.05N/A
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
2.2006 of 5 stars
$10.68
+2.6%
$10.50
-1.7%
-15.7%$1.15B$118.17M10.17N/APositive News
MUC
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund
N/A$10.54
-0.3%
N/A-5.1%$1.01B$6.39M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
2.0198 of 5 stars
$15.36
+1.5%
$16.50
+7.4%
-5.4%$996.65M$131.73M7.721,000
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$10.76
+1.0%
N/A-1.4%$927.84M$152.17M0.00N/APositive News
Upcoming Earnings
BBDC
Barings BDC
2.3375 of 5 stars
$8.68
+1.3%
$9.00
+3.7%
-8.6%$914.42M$123.59M8.3426News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.4874 of 5 stars
$10.23
+1.4%
$11.38
+11.2%
-11.1%$899.35M$114.06M7.30658
HQH
Abrdn Healthcare Investors
N/A$15.64
+2.9%
N/A-7.5%$818.70M$186.46M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Increase

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