KF vs. JHI, PCF, CXE, NAZ, NIM, ECF, PFO, KSM, PCM, and SWZ
Should you be buying The Korea Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Korea Fund include John Hancock Investors Trust (JHI), High Income Securities Fund (PCF), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NAZ), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), PCM Fund (PCM), and The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
The Korea Fund (NYSE:KF) and John Hancock Investors Trust (NYSE:JHI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, profitability, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and institutional ownership.
In the previous week, The Korea Fund had 4 more articles in the media than John Hancock Investors Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for The Korea Fund and 1 mentions for John Hancock Investors Trust. The Korea Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat John Hancock Investors Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that The Korea Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The Korea Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. John Hancock Investors Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%.
The Korea Fund has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Hancock Investors Trust has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
70.0% of The Korea Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.0% of John Hancock Investors Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.5% of The Korea Fund shares are owned 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.
John Hancock Investors Trust received 14 more outperform votes than The Korea Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.78% of users gave John Hancock Investors Trust an outperform vote while only 66.40% of users gave The Korea Fund an outperform vote.
Summary
The Korea Fund beats John Hancock Investors Trust on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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