BCV vs. SSSS, NMI, NXC, JEQ, NMT, SWZ, DTF, MGF, PCM, and CEV
Should you be buying Bancroft Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bancroft Fund include SuRo Capital (SSSS), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXC), Abrdn Japan Equity Fund (JEQ), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund (DTF), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), PCM Fund (PCM), and Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (CEV). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
SuRo Capital (NASDAQ:SSSS) and Bancroft Fund (NYSE:BCV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, earnings, dividends and institutional ownership.
SuRo Capital has a net margin of 76.81% compared to SuRo Capital's net margin of 0.00%. SuRo Capital's return on equity of 0.00% beat Bancroft Fund's return on equity.
SuRo Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Bancroft Fund.
13.0% of SuRo Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.4% of Bancroft Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.0% of SuRo Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Bancroft Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SuRo Capital received 43 more outperform votes than Bancroft Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
SuRo Capital has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bancroft Fund has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SuRo Capital currently has a consensus target price of $6.00, indicating a potential upside of 59.57%. Given Bancroft Fund's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe SuRo Capital is more favorable than Bancroft Fund.
In the previous week, SuRo Capital had 1 more articles in the media than Bancroft Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for SuRo Capital and 1 mentions for Bancroft Fund. SuRo Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.73 beat Bancroft Fund's score of 1.46 indicating that Bancroft Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
SuRo Capital beats Bancroft Fund on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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