Barings Participation Investors (MPV) Competitors

Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) and ASA Gold and Precious Metals (NYSE:ASA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk and community ranking.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer MPV or ASA?

ASA Gold and Precious Metals received 9 more outperform votes than Barings Participation Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.49% of users gave ASA Gold and Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Barings Participation Investors an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Barings Participation Investors	Outperform Votes 77 60.16%	Underperform Votes 51 39.84%
ASA Gold and Precious Metals	Outperform Votes 86 70.49%	Underperform Votes 36 29.51%

Is MPV or ASA more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Barings Participation Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A
ASA Gold and Precious Metals	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is MPV or ASA a better dividend stock?

Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. ASA Gold and Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, MPV or ASA?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Barings Participation Investors	$18.78M	10.86	N/A	N/A	N/A
ASA Gold and Precious Metals	$118.94M	6.09	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media prefer MPV or ASA?

In the previous week, ASA Gold and Precious Metals had 7 more articles in the media than Barings Participation Investors. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ASA Gold and Precious Metals and 0 mentions for Barings Participation Investors. ASA Gold and Precious Metals' average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Barings Participation Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that ASA Gold and Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Barings Participation Investors	Neutral
ASA Gold and Precious Metals	Positive

Which has more volatility & risk, MPV or ASA?

Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASA Gold and Precious Metals has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

ASA Gold and Precious Metals beats Barings Participation Investors on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.