TY vs. GAM, MQY, MYI, MMU, MYD, NQP, MUA, PPT, PMO, and RFI
Should you be buying Tri-Continental stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tri-Continental include General American Investors (GAM), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), Western Asset Managed Municipals Fund (MMU), BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Putnam Premier Income Trust (PPT), Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust (PMO), and Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund (RFI). These companies are all part of the "misc." industry.
Tri-Continental vs.
General American Investors (NYSE:GAM) and Tri-Continental (NYSE:TY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
In the previous week, General American Investors had 3 more articles in the media than Tri-Continental. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for General American Investors and 1 mentions for Tri-Continental. Tri-Continental's average media sentiment score of 1.79 beat General American Investors' score of 1.34 indicating that Tri-Continental is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
36.8% of General American Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of Tri-Continental shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of General American Investors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.7% of Tri-Continental shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Tri-Continental received 128 more outperform votes than General American Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.02% of users gave Tri-Continental an outperform vote while only 59.01% of users gave General American Investors an outperform vote.
General American Investors pays an annual dividend of $4.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.5%. Tri-Continental pays an annual dividend of $3.09 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%.
General American Investors has a beta of 0.98, indicating that its share price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tri-Continental has a beta of 0.88, indicating that its share price is 12% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Tri-Continental beats General American Investors on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TY) was last updated on 4/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
