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Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA) Competitors

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USA vs. FSK, DNP, PTY, ADX, GAB, STEW, OXLC, RVT, BCAT, and GSBD

Should you be buying Liberty All-Star Equity Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund include FS KKR Capital (FSK), DNP Select Income Fund (DNP), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Royce Value Trust (RVT), BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), and Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Liberty All-Star Equity Fund vs.

FS KKR Capital (NYSE:FSK) and Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Liberty All-Star Equity Fund received 244 more outperform votes than FS KKR Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote while only 47.59% of users gave FS KKR Capital an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
FS KKR CapitalOutperform Votes
79
47.59%
Underperform Votes
87
52.41%
Liberty All-Star Equity FundOutperform Votes
323
68.87%
Underperform Votes
146
31.13%

36.3% of FS KKR Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.9% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of FS KKR Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

FS KKR Capital presently has a consensus target price of $20.70, suggesting a potential upside of 7.25%. Given FS KKR Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe FS KKR Capital is more favorable than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
FS KKR Capital
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.80
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

FS KKR Capital has a net margin of 29.98% compared to Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's net margin of 0.00%. FS KKR Capital's return on equity of 12.31% beat Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
FS KKR Capital29.98% 12.31% 5.47%
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund N/A N/A N/A

FS KKR Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
FS KKR Capital$664M8.14$696M$2.099.23
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund$259.99M6.64N/AN/AN/A

FS KKR Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.3%. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.86 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.5%. FS KKR Capital pays out 122.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

In the previous week, FS KKR Capital had 18 more articles in the media than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for FS KKR Capital and 3 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. FS KKR Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's score of -0.41 indicating that FS KKR Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
FS KKR Capital
10 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
7 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

FS KKR Capital has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.12, suggesting that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

FS KKR Capital beats Liberty All-Star Equity Fund on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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USA vs. The Competition

MetricLiberty All-Star Equity FundInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.73B$7.58B$10.88B$18.62B
Dividend Yield11.95%7.16%6.00%4.24%
P/E RatioN/A3.5421.6231.24
Price / Sales6.6419.5325.2725.86
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6117.54
Price / BookN/A0.872.594.31
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance7.51%3.46%4.06%6.92%
1 Month Performance-2.36%-4.58%-3.33%-6.59%
1 Year Performance-6.94%0.36%535.49%1.58%

Liberty All-Star Equity Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
USA
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund
N/A$6.39
+0.7%
N/A-8.5%$1.73B$259.99M0.00N/ADividend Cut
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
FSK
FS KKR Capital
1.3 of 5 stars
$18.43
-5.1%
$21.30
+15.6%
-0.4%$5.16B$664M9.80N/ANews Coverage
High Trading Volume
DNP
DNP Select Income Fund
N/A$8.99
-0.9%
N/A+5.8%$3.32B$851.71M0.00590News Coverage
High Trading Volume
PTY
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund
N/A$12.73
-2.0%
N/A-7.4%$2.31B$230.95M0.00147,000High Trading Volume
ADX
Adams Diversified Equity Fund
N/A$17.14
-1.7%
N/A-2.6%$2.01B$564.12M0.0030Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
GAB
The Gabelli Equity Trust
N/A$5.01
-0.9%
N/A+0.2%$1.54B$203.01M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News
High Trading Volume
STEW
SRH Total Return Fund
N/A$15.55
-1.6%
N/A+15.8%$1.50B$550.34M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Positive News
High Trading Volume
OXLC
Oxford Lane Capital
2.055 of 5 stars
$4.31
-0.7%
N/A-11.7%$1.49B$194.42M5.19601Short Interest ↓
High Trading Volume
RVT
Royce Value Trust
N/A$12.62
-3.0%
N/A-7.1%$1.46B$9.80M0.0050News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
BCAT
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust
N/A$13.22
-3.2%
N/A-8.6%$1.42B$197.67M0.00147,000Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
2.2042 of 5 stars
$10.08
-4.9%
$13.00
+29.0%
-31.4%$1.18B$78.71M14.39N/AShort Interest ↑
High Trading Volume
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