OXSQ vs. EMF, NPV, VBF, VTN, BKN, TDF, MPV, TSI, MQT, and MPA
Should you be buying Oxford Square Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Oxford Square Capital include Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), Invesco Bond Fund (VBF), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals (VTN), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), Barings Participation Investors (MPV), TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund II (MQT), and BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (MPA). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Oxford Square Capital (NASDAQ:OXSQ) and Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (NYSE:EMF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
Templeton Emerging Markets Fund received 35 more outperform votes than Oxford Square Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.57% of users gave Templeton Emerging Markets Fund an outperform vote while only 59.24% of users gave Oxford Square Capital an outperform vote.
Oxford Square Capital has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Templeton Emerging Markets Fund has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its stock price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Oxford Square Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Templeton Emerging Markets Fund.
Oxford Square Capital has a net margin of 18.57% compared to Templeton Emerging Markets Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Oxford Square Capital's return on equity of 17.32% beat Templeton Emerging Markets Fund's return on equity.
In the previous week, Oxford Square Capital had 8 more articles in the media than Templeton Emerging Markets Fund. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Oxford Square Capital and 0 mentions for Templeton Emerging Markets Fund. Oxford Square Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Templeton Emerging Markets Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Oxford Square Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Oxford Square Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. Templeton Emerging Markets Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Oxford Square Capital pays out 247.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
6.4% of Oxford Square Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 49.9% of Templeton Emerging Markets Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 11.6% of Oxford Square Capital shares are held 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.
Summary
Oxford Square Capital beats Templeton Emerging Markets Fund on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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