KSM vs. PCM, PFO, MGF, ECF, SWZ, NIM, NMT, CXE, PCF, and NMI
Should you be buying DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust include PCM Fund (PCM), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), High Income Securities Fund (PCF), and Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
PCM Fund (NYSE:PCM) and DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:KSM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, community ranking and risk.
In the previous week, PCM Fund and PCM Fund both had 1 articles in the media. DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat PCM Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that PCM Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PCM Fund received 102 more outperform votes than DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.10% of users gave PCM Fund an outperform vote while only 66.93% of users gave DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust an outperform vote.
PCM Fund has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
10.3% of PCM Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.8% of DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of PCM Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
PCM Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.33 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. PCM Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. PCM Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
PCM Fund beats DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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