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BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO) Competitors

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$6.34 +0.03 (+0.40%)
Closing price 10/24/2025 03:58 PM Eastern
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$6.34 +0.00 (+0.08%)
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LEO vs. BCAT, OXLC, CET, GSBD, MFIC, HQH, NMFC, ASA, AWF, and BBDC

Should you be buying BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals include BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Central Securities (CET), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), and Barings Bdc (BBDC). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals vs. Its Competitors

BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (NYSE:BCAT) and BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (NYSE:LEO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability, risk, valuation, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals has a beta of 0.64, meaning that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust had 2 more articles in the media than BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust and 0 mentions for BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals. BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.94 beat BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals' score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust Very Positive
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals Neutral

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term TrustN/A N/A N/A
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals N/A N/A N/A

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust$159.64M9.78N/AN/AN/A
BNY Mellon Strategic MunicipalsN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

36.1% of BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust pays an annual dividend of $3.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.2%. BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%.

Summary

BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust beats BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals on 6 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.

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LEO vs. The Competition

MetricBNY Mellon Strategic MunicipalsFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$404.69M$4.26B$12.73B$22.10B
Dividend Yield1.20%6.00%5.54%3.55%
P/E RatioN/AN/A22.4233.37
Price / SalesN/A20.9130.2383.20
Price / CashN/A16.4222.5724.64
Price / BookN/A1.252.204.66
Net IncomeN/A$187.53M$1.02B$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.52%0.59%1.62%2.22%
1 Month Performance2.26%1.15%0.01%1.79%
1 Year Performance1.04%5.63%542.49%14.02%

BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
LEO
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals
N/A$6.34
+0.4%
N/A+1.1%$404.69MN/A0.00147,000
BCAT
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust
N/A$14.85
-0.1%
N/A-9.6%$1.60B$159.64M0.00147,000Positive News
OXLC
Oxford Lane Capital
0.8903 of 5 stars
$16.45
-1.3%
N/A-41.2%$1.49B$57.31M3.96601
CET
Central Securities
N/A$51.39
+0.5%
N/A+9.2%$1.49B$222.17M0.006
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.9171 of 5 stars
$10.00
+1.4%
$10.00
+0.1%
-27.3%$1.14B$434.37M7.93N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Forecast
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.6603 of 5 stars
$11.85
+1.3%
$13.42
+13.2%
-9.6%$1.11B$301.78M10.97N/AAnalyst Forecast
HQH
abrdn Healthcare Investors
N/A$18.90
+0.2%
N/A+3.6%$1.02BN/A0.00147,000Positive News
Short Interest ↑
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
3.2115 of 5 stars
$9.54
+2.7%
$10.50
+10.1%
-17.1%$1.01B$371.67M12.55N/APositive News
Analyst Forecast
ASA
ASA Gold and Precious Metals
N/A$50.14
+2.3%
N/A+104.8%$946.14MN/A0.001,100News Coverage
Positive News
Insider Trade
High Trading Volume
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$10.95
-0.4%
N/A+1.1%$944.22MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
BBDC
Barings Bdc
3.2165 of 5 stars
$8.80
+1.7%
$9.67
+9.9%
-9.0%$924.88M$286.17M9.1626Positive News
Analyst Forecast

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