MPA vs. MPV, NNY, GGT, PIM, INSI, VBF, SPE, EMF, NPV, and OXSQ
Should you be buying BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund include Barings Participation Investors (MPV), Nuveen New York Municipal Value Fund (NNY), The Gabelli Multimedia Trust (GGT), Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (PIM), Insight Select Income Fund (INSI), Invesco Bond Fund (VBF), Special Opportunities Fund (SPE), Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), and Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) and BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund (NYSE:MPA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund received 7 more outperform votes than Barings Participation Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.42% of users gave BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Barings Participation Investors an outperform vote.
24.7% of BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Barings Participation Investors shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Barings Participation Investors. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund and 1 mentions for Barings Participation Investors. Barings Participation Investors' average media sentiment score of -0.20 beat BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its share price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.29 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Barings Participation Investors has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Barings Participation Investors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund beats Barings Participation Investors on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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