NPV vs. OXSQ, EMF, VTN, VBF, INSI, TDF, MPV, BKN, TSI, and MVT
Should you be buying Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund include Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals (VTN), Invesco Bond Fund (VBF), Insight Select Income Fund (INSI), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), Barings Participation Investors (MPV), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI), and BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Oxford Square Capital (NASDAQ:OXSQ) and Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NPV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Oxford Square Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. 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. Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Oxford Square Capital had 5 more articles in the media than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Oxford Square Capital and 2 mentions for Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund. Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat Oxford Square Capital's score of 0.73 indicating that Oxford Square Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund received 23 more outperform votes than Oxford Square Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.04% of users gave Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote while only 59.24% of users gave Oxford Square Capital an outperform vote.
6.4% of Oxford Square Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.7% of Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 11.6% of Oxford Square Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Oxford Square Capital has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.59, suggesting that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Oxford Square Capital has a net margin of 18.57% compared to Oxford Square Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund's return on equity of 17.32% beat Oxford Square Capital's return on equity.
Oxford Square Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund.
Summary
Oxford Square Capital beats Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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