BKN vs. TDF, TSI, VTN, MQT, MVT, FUND, NPV, EMF, OXSQ, and BKT
Should you be buying BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust include Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals (VTN), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund II (MQT), BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT), Sprott Focus Trust (FUND), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), and BlackRock Income Trust (BKT). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (NYSE:BKN) and Templeton Dragon Fund (NYSE:TDF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and risk.
Templeton Dragon Fund received 87 more outperform votes than BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.54% of users gave Templeton Dragon Fund an outperform vote while only 64.10% of users gave BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust an outperform vote.
26.7% of BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Templeton Dragon Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 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.
BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.53, meaning that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Templeton Dragon Fund has a beta of 0.48, meaning that its share price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust and BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust both had 1 articles in the media. BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Templeton Dragon Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Templeton Dragon Fund beats BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust on 3 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.
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