FUND vs. SLRC, MQY, HQH, MYI, PHK, NXP, MUJ, PEO, BTO, and IFN
Should you be buying Sprott Focus Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Sprott Focus Trust include SLR Investment (SLRC), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), and The India Fund (IFN). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
SLR Investment (NASDAQ:SLRC) and Sprott Focus Trust (NASDAQ:FUND) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
In the previous week, Sprott Focus Trust had 2 more articles in the media than SLR Investment. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Sprott Focus Trust and 2 mentions for SLR Investment. SLR Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Sprott Focus Trust's score of 0.51 indicating that Sprott Focus Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SLR Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Sprott Focus Trust.
35.3% of SLR Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 12.6% of Sprott Focus Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.2% of SLR Investment shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 48.9% of Sprott Focus Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SLR Investment has a net margin of 41.66% compared to SLR Investment's net margin of 0.00%. Sprott Focus Trust's return on equity of 9.51% beat SLR Investment's return on equity.
SLR Investment has a beta of 1.12, indicating that its share price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Sprott Focus Trust has a beta of 1.07, indicating that its share price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SLR Investment presently has a consensus price target of $14.88, suggesting a potential downside of 10.77%. Given Sprott Focus Trust's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe SLR Investment is more favorable than Sprott Focus Trust.
SLR Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Sprott Focus Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. SLR Investment pays out 92.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SLR Investment has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Sprott Focus Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
SLR Investment received 214 more outperform votes than Sprott Focus Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.28% of users gave Sprott Focus Trust an outperform vote while only 55.16% of users gave SLR Investment an outperform vote.
Summary
SLR Investment beats Sprott Focus Trust on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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