MPV vs. NXP, VMO, MUJ, PEO, BTO, IFN, VGM, VKQ, DSU, and MYD
Should you be buying Barings Participation Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings Participation Investors include Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), The India Fund (IFN), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals (VGM), Invesco Municipal Trust (VKQ), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (DSU), and BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NYSE:NXP) and Barings Participation Investors (NYSE:MPV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.
In the previous week, Barings Participation Investors had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Barings Participation Investors and 1 mentions for Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio's average media sentiment score of 1.43 beat Barings Participation Investors' score of 1.00 indicating that Barings Participation Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Participation Investors has a beta of 0.57, indicating that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
16.2% of Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.4% of Barings Participation Investors shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Barings Participation Investors received 6 more outperform votes than Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.96% of users gave Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio an outperform vote while only 60.16% of users gave Barings Participation Investors an outperform vote.
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Barings Participation Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.01 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Barings Participation Investors has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Barings Participation Investors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Barings Participation Investors beats Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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