TYG vs. MCI, KTF, SOR, HQL, PPT, HRZN, MYN, MIY, MHN, and PMO
Should you be buying Tortoise Energy Infrastructure stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure include Barings Corporate Investors (MCI), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), Source Capital (SOR), Abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL), Putnam Premier Income Trust (PPT), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), BlackRock MuniYield Michigan Quality Fund (MIY), BlackRock MuniHoldings New York Quality Fund (MHN), and Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust (PMO).
Barings Corporate Investors (NYSE:MCI) and Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (NYSE:TYG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, profitability, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and institutional ownership.
Barings Corporate Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Tortoise Energy Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. Barings Corporate Investors has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years.
Barings Corporate Investors has a beta of 0.72, indicating that its stock price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tortoise Energy Infrastructure has a beta of 2.08, indicating that its stock price is 108% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Barings Corporate Investors and Barings Corporate Investors both had 1 articles in the media. Barings Corporate Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Tortoise Energy Infrastructure's score of 1.00 indicating that Tortoise Energy Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure received 10 more outperform votes than Barings Corporate Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.65% of users gave Barings Corporate Investors an outperform vote while only 69.43% of users gave Tortoise Energy Infrastructure an outperform vote.
32.5% of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.2% of Barings Corporate Investors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure shares are owned by 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.
Summary
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure beats Barings Corporate Investors on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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