RMT vs. NQP, MUA, VCV, HRZN, MYN, MYD, MCI, DSU, KTF, and HQL
Should you be buying Royce Micro-Cap Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Royce Micro-Cap Trust include Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust (VCV), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD), Barings Corporate Investors (MCI), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (DSU), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), and Abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NQP) and Royce Micro-Cap Trust (NYSE:RMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking and institutional ownership.
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. Royce Micro-Cap Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%.
30.6% of Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.0% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund received 18 more outperform votes than Royce Micro-Cap Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.25% of users gave Royce Micro-Cap Trust an outperform vote while only 65.41% of users gave Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Royce Micro-Cap Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund and 4 mentions for Royce Micro-Cap Trust. Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Royce Micro-Cap Trust's score of 1.20 indicating that Royce Micro-Cap Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.45, meaning that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royce Micro-Cap Trust has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Royce Micro-Cap Trust beats Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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