MPV vs. MUJ, PEO, BTO, IFN, DSU, MYD, RMT, MVF, BBH, and NQP
Should you be buying Barings Participation Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings Participation Investors include BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), The India Fund (IFN), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (DSU), BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD), Royce Micro-Cap Trust (RMT), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), VanEck Biotech ETF (BBH), and Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (NYSE:MUJ) and Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk and valuation.
BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Barings Participation Investors has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Barings Participation Investors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
15.1% of BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Barings Participation Investors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund had 4 more articles in the media than Barings Participation Investors. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund and 1 mentions for Barings Participation Investors. BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Barings Participation Investors' score of 0.60 indicating that Barings Participation Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund received 51 more outperform votes than Barings Participation Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.97% of users gave BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Barings Participation Investors an outperform vote.
BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Barings Participation Investors beats BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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