Barings Participation Investors (MPV) Competitors

Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) and Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NYSE:NXP) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, valuation, profitability, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.

Which has better earnings & valuation, MPV or NXP?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Barings Participation Investors	$18.78M	9.91	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	$75.19M	8.57	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer MPV or NXP?

Barings Participation Investors received 6 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 60.16% of users gave Barings Participation Investors an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Barings Participation Investors	Outperform Votes 77 60.16%	Underperform Votes 51 39.84%
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	Outperform Votes 71 63.96%	Underperform Votes 40 36.04%

Which has more volatility & risk, MPV or NXP?

Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.35, indicating that its stock price is 65% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio has a beta of 0.32, indicating that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is MPV or NXP a better dividend stock?

Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.47 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in MPV or NXP?

16.2% of Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Barings Participation Investors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is MPV or NXP more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Barings Participation Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media prefer MPV or NXP?

In the previous week, Barings Participation Investors had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Barings Participation Investors and 1 mentions for Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Barings Participation Investors' score of -0.13 indicating that Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Barings Participation Investors	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Barings Participation Investors beats Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.