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CET vs SPE

Side-by-side comparison of Central Securities Corporation (CET) and Special Opportunities Fund Inc (SPE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both CET and SPE operate in Finance/Investors Services (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CET is the larger of the two at $12.75B, about 68.8x SPE ($185.5M).
  • CET has been more active in the news (2 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for SPE).
MetricCETSPE
Company
Central Securities Corporation
Special Opportunities Fund Inc
Price
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Market cap
$12.75B
$185.5M
1M return
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-
1Y return
-
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Industry
Finance/Investors Services
Finance/Investors Services
Exchange
AMEX
NYSE
IPO
1951
News (4w)
2
1
Recent ratings
0
0
CET

Central Securities Corporation

Central Securities Corp. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It also invests on bonds, convertible bonds, preferred stocks, convertible preferred stocks, warrants, options real estate, or short-term obligations of governments, banks and corporations. Central Securities Corp. was founded on October 1, 1929 and is based in New York, New York.

SPE

Special Opportunities Fund Inc

Special Opportunities Fund, Inc. is a close-ended balanced fund of funds launched and managed by Bulldog Investors, LLC. It invests in close-ended funds investing in public equity and fixed income markets. The fund employs a combination of value, opportunistic and special situations strategies to make its investments. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P 500 Index. The fund was previously known as Insured Municipal Income Fund, Inc. Special Opportunities Fund, Inc. was formed on February 18, 1993 and is domiciled in the United States.