RMT vs. USA, RVT, OXLC, BCAT, GAB, STEW, GSBD, CET, MFIC, and NMFC
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), Royce Value Trust (RVT), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Central Securities (CET), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), and New Mountain Finance (NMFC). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust vs.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) and Royce Micro-Cap Trust (NYSE:RMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment and profitability.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its share price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royce Micro-Cap Trust has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Royce Micro-Cap Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%.
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.
10.0% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.0% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Liberty All-Star Equity Fund had 5 more articles in the media than Royce Micro-Cap Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund and 0 mentions for Royce Micro-Cap Trust. Royce Micro-Cap Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's score of 0.32 indicating that Royce Micro-Cap Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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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This page (NYSE:RMT) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
