PCF vs. RMT, MVF, BBH, NQP, MUA, HRZN, MYN, TYG, KTF, and HQL
Should you be buying High Income Securities Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of High Income Securities Fund include Royce Micro-Cap Trust (RMT), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), VanEck Biotech ETF (BBH), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), and Abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust (NYSE:RMT) and High Income Securities Fund (NYSE:PCF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, High Income Securities Fund has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. High Income Securities Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. High Income Securities Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. High Income Securities Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
35.0% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 15.4% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Royce Micro-Cap Trust had 3 more articles in the media than High Income Securities Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Royce Micro-Cap Trust and 0 mentions for High Income Securities Fund. High Income Securities Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Royce Micro-Cap Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Royce Micro-Cap Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
High Income Securities Fund received 19 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 62.13% of users gave High Income Securities Fund an outperform vote.
Summary
Royce Micro-Cap Trust beats High Income Securities Fund on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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