RMT vs. RVT, STEW, BCAT, OXLC, CET, GSBD, MFIC, NMFC, BCSF, and PFLT
Should you be buying Royce Micro-Cap Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royce Micro-Cap Trust include Royce Value Trust (RVT), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Central Securities (CET), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust vs. Its Competitors
Royce Micro-Cap Trust (NYSE:RMT) and Royce Value Trust (NYSE:RVT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and risk.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royce Value Trust has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its share price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Royce Value Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%.
In the previous week, Royce Value Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Royce Micro-Cap Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Royce Value Trust and 2 mentions for Royce Micro-Cap Trust. Royce Value Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.91 beat Royce Micro-Cap Trust's score of 0.47 indicating that Royce Value Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Royce Value Trust received 104 more outperform votes than Royce Micro-Cap Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.25% of users gave Royce Micro-Cap Trust an outperform vote while only 65.29% of users gave Royce Value Trust an outperform vote.
35.0% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.6% of Royce Value Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Royce Value Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Royce Value Trust beats Royce Micro-Cap Trust on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NYSE:RMT) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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