MPV vs. GGT, PIM, NNY, MPA, VBF, SPE, DMF, NPV, OXSQ, and EMF
Should you be buying Barings Participation Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings Participation Investors include The Gabelli Multimedia Trust (GGT), Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (PIM), Nuveen New York Municipal Value Fund (NNY), BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (MPA), Invesco Bond Fund (VBF), Special Opportunities Fund (SPE), BNY Mellon Municipal Income (DMF), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), and Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust (NYSE:GGT) and Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability, community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.4%. Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Barings Participation Investors has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
10.6% of The Gabelli Multimedia Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.6% of The Gabelli Multimedia Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Barings Participation Investors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust received 54 more outperform votes than Barings Participation Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.16% of users gave The Gabelli Multimedia Trust an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Barings Participation Investors an outperform vote.
In the previous week, The Gabelli Multimedia Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Barings Participation Investors. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for The Gabelli Multimedia Trust and 3 mentions for Barings Participation Investors. Barings Participation Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat The Gabelli Multimedia Trust's score of 1.03 indicating that The Gabelli Multimedia Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
The Gabelli Multimedia Trust beats Barings Participation Investors on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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