RMT vs. USA, NUV, GSBD, RVT, TY, GAB, STEW, CET, QQQX, and GAM
Should you be buying Royce Micro-Cap Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royce Micro-Cap Trust include Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Royce Value Trust (RVT), Tri-Continental (TY), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Central Securities (CET), Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX), and General American Investors (GAM). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust (NYSE:RMT) and Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, risk, profitability, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%.
35.0% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.0% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Liberty All-Star Equity Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Royce Micro-Cap Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund and 3 mentions for Royce Micro-Cap Trust. Royce Micro-Cap Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's score of 1.34 indicating that Royce Micro-Cap Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund received 237 more outperform votes than Royce Micro-Cap Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote while only 68.25% of users gave Royce Micro-Cap Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
Royce Micro-Cap Trust beats Liberty All-Star Equity Fund on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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