TY vs. RVT, GSBD, USA, STEW, GAB, QQQX, PTY, NUV, GAM, and ADX
Should you be buying Tri-Continental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tri-Continental include Royce Value Trust (RVT), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), General American Investors (GAM), and Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Tri-Continental vs.
Tri-Continental (NYSE:TY) and Royce Value Trust (NYSE:RVT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk and dividends.
Tri-Continental has a beta of 0.95, indicating that its share price is 5% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royce Value Trust has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tri-Continental pays an annual dividend of $1.10 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Royce Value Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%.
In the previous week, Royce Value Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Tri-Continental. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Royce Value Trust and 0 mentions for Tri-Continental. Royce Value Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.78 beat Tri-Continental's score of 0.00 indicating that Royce Value Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tri-Continental received 33 more outperform votes than Royce Value Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.02% of users gave Tri-Continental an outperform vote while only 65.29% of users gave Royce Value Trust an outperform vote.
9.8% of Tri-Continental shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 23.1% of Royce Value Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.7% of Tri-Continental shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Royce Value Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Royce Value Trust beats Tri-Continental on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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