RMT vs. MUA, NQP, MVF, VCV, MYN, HRZN, MYD, KTF, DSU, and TYG
Should you be buying Royce Micro-Cap Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royce Micro-Cap Trust include BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust (VCV), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (DSU), and Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust (NYSE:RMT) and BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (NYSE:MUA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
BlackRock MuniAssets Fund received 10 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 67.61% of users gave BlackRock MuniAssets Fund an outperform vote.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. BlackRock MuniAssets Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock MuniAssets Fund has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.
35.0% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.4% of BlackRock MuniAssets Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BlackRock MuniAssets Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BlackRock MuniAssets Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Royce Micro-Cap Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BlackRock MuniAssets Fund and 0 mentions for Royce Micro-Cap Trust. Royce Micro-Cap Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat BlackRock MuniAssets Fund's score of -0.59 indicating that Royce Micro-Cap Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Royce Micro-Cap Trust beats BlackRock MuniAssets Fund on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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