NUV vs. USA, GSBD, TY, GAB, RVT, PTY, STEW, ADX, CET, and QQQX
Should you be buying Nuveen Municipal Value Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Municipal Value Fund include Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Tri-Continental (TY), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Royce Value Trust (RVT), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), Central Securities (CET), and Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) and Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NYSE:NUV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund received 192 more outperform votes than Nuveen Municipal Value Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote while only 65.83% of users gave Nuveen Municipal Value Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Liberty All-Star Equity Fund had 3 more articles in the media than Nuveen Municipal Value Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund and 2 mentions for Nuveen Municipal Value Fund. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Nuveen Municipal Value Fund's score of 0.13 indicating that Nuveen Municipal Value Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
10.0% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.5% of Nuveen Municipal Value Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Nuveen Municipal Value Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its stock price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Municipal Value Fund has a beta of 0.33, suggesting that its stock price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Nuveen Municipal Value Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund beats Nuveen Municipal Value Fund on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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