DSU vs. USA, NUV, GSBD, TY, GAB, RVT, STEW, CET, QQQX, and GAM
Should you be buying BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund include Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Tri-Continental (TY), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Royce Value Trust (RVT), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Central Securities (CET), Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX), and General American Investors (GAM). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) and BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund (NYSE:DSU) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.
9.9% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.3% of BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund received 210 more outperform votes than BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote while only 63.13% of users gave BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund an outperform vote.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund has a beta of 0.7, meaning that its stock price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Liberty All-Star Equity Fund had 3 more articles in the media than BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund and 1 mentions for BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund. BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.62 beat Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that Liberty All-Star Equity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. BlackRock Debt Strategies 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 BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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