TYG vs. USA, RVT, OXLC, BCAT, GAB, STEW, GSBD, CET, MFIC, and NMFC
Should you be buying Tortoise Energy Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure 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.
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure vs.
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (NYSE:TYG) and Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $3.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.71 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%.
32.5% of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.0% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by 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.
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure has a beta of 2.18, indicating that its share price is 118% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, 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.
In the previous week, Tortoise Energy Infrastructure had 3 more articles in the media than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Tortoise Energy Infrastructure and 1 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. Tortoise Energy Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's score of 0.70 indicating that Tortoise Energy Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund received 80 more outperform votes than Tortoise Energy Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.43% of users gave Tortoise Energy Infrastructure an outperform vote while only 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote.
Summary
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure beats Liberty All-Star Equity Fund on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:TYG) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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