Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ) Competitors

Oxford Square Capital (NASDAQ:OXSQ) and Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NYSE:NXP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings and dividends.

Which has more risk & volatility, OXSQ or NXP?

Oxford Square Capital has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio has a beta of 0.34, meaning that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is OXSQ or NXP a better dividend stock?

Oxford Square Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.6%. Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Oxford Square Capital pays out -420.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Is OXSQ or NXP more profitable?

Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Oxford Square Capital's net margin of -10.48%. Oxford Square Capital's return on equity of 18.58% beat Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Oxford Square Capital	-10.48%	18.58%	9.76%
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, OXSQ or NXP?

Oxford Square Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Oxford Square Capital	$51.82M	3.54	$17.24M	-$0.10	-27.00
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of OXSQ or NXP?

6.4% of Oxford Square Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.2% of Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.4% of Oxford Square Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in OXSQ or NXP?

Oxford Square Capital received 22 more outperform votes than Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.96% of users gave Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio an outperform vote while only 57.76% of users gave Oxford Square Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Oxford Square Capital	Outperform Votes 93 57.76%	Underperform Votes 68 42.24%
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	Outperform Votes 71 63.96%	Underperform Votes 40 36.04%

Does the media refer more to OXSQ or NXP?

In the previous week, Oxford Square Capital had 4 more articles in the media than Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Oxford Square Capital and 1 mentions for Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. Oxford Square Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio's score of 0.59 indicating that Oxford Square Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Oxford Square Capital	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Oxford Square Capital beats Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.