BCSF vs. VFL, AWF, ARL, ASA, BBAR, BBDO, BBD, BCH, BMA, and CIB
Should you be buying Bain Capital Specialty Finance stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bain Capital Specialty Finance include abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), American Realty Investors (ARL), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), Banco BBVA Argentina (BBAR), Banco Bradesco (BBDO), Banco Bradesco (BBD), Banco de Chile (BCH), Banco Macro (BMA), and Bancolombia (CIB). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) and Bain Capital Specialty Finance (NYSE:BCSF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bain Capital Specialty Finance has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Bain Capital Specialty Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. Bain Capital Specialty Finance pays out 84.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Bain Capital Specialty Finance has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Bain Capital Specialty Finance is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance has a net margin of 43.42% compared to Bain Capital Specialty Finance's net margin of 0.00%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's return on equity of 12.64% beat Bain Capital Specialty Finance's return on equity.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance received 56 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance has a consensus target price of $15.50, suggesting a potential downside of 5.05%. Given abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Bain Capital Specialty Finance is more favorable than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund.
Bain Capital Specialty Finance has higher revenue and earnings than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund.
In the previous week, Bain Capital Specialty Finance had 5 more articles in the media than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Bain Capital Specialty Finance and 1 mentions for abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. Bain Capital Specialty Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.34 indicating that abrdn National Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Bain Capital Specialty Finance beats abrdn National Municipal Income Fund on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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