MSD vs. ECC, MUJ, DSU, CCAP, PEO, IFN, CION, RMT, TYG, and EVN
Should you be buying Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund include Eagle Point Credit (ECC), BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (DSU), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), The India Fund (IFN), CION Investment (CION), Royce Micro-Cap Trust (RMT), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), and Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund vs. Its Competitors
Eagle Point Credit (NYSE:ECC) and Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund (NYSE:MSD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.
Eagle Point Credit has higher revenue and earnings than Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund.
Eagle Point Credit has a beta of 0.42, meaning that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Eagle Point Credit. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund and 0 mentions for Eagle Point Credit. Eagle Point Credit's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that Eagle Point Credit is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Eagle Point Credit presently has a consensus target price of $8.67, indicating a potential upside of 15.02%. Given Eagle Point Credit's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Eagle Point Credit is more favorable than Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund.
Eagle Point Credit has a net margin of 44.67% compared to Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Eagle Point Credit's return on equity of 12.53% beat Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund's return on equity.
Eagle Point Credit received 156 more outperform votes than Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.27% of users gave Eagle Point Credit an outperform vote while only 63.68% of users gave Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund an outperform vote.
19.5% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Eagle Point Credit pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 22.3%. Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. Eagle Point Credit pays out -420.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Eagle Point Credit beats Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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