MYD vs. TY, GAM, MQY, MYI, VMO, IIM, MMU, VGM, VKQ, and VCV
Should you be buying BlackRock MuniYield Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock MuniYield Fund include Tri-Continental (TY), General American Investors (GAM), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), Invesco Value Municipal Income Trust (IIM), Western Asset Managed Municipals Fund (MMU), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals (VGM), Invesco Municipal Trust (VKQ), and Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust (VCV). These companies are all part of the "misc." industry.
BlackRock MuniYield Fund vs.
Tri-Continental (NYSE:TY) and BlackRock MuniYield Fund (NYSE:MYD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Tri-Continental pays an annual dividend of $3.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. BlackRock MuniYield Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%.
Tri-Continental received 63 more outperform votes than BlackRock MuniYield Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.40% of users gave BlackRock MuniYield Fund an outperform vote while only 71.02% of users gave Tri-Continental an outperform vote.
10.2% of Tri-Continental shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.8% of BlackRock MuniYield Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of Tri-Continental shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BlackRock MuniYield Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tri-Continental has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its stock price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock MuniYield Fund has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Tri-Continental had 1 more articles in the media than BlackRock MuniYield Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Tri-Continental and 0 mentions for BlackRock MuniYield Fund. BlackRock MuniYield Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Tri-Continental's score of 0.67 indicating that BlackRock MuniYield Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Tri-Continental beats BlackRock MuniYield Fund on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:MYD) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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