MCI vs. KTF, TYG, HQL, MYN, SOR, PPT, HRZN, MIY, MUA, and MHN Should you be buying Barings Corporate Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Barings Corporate Investors include DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), Abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), Source Capital (SOR), Putnam Premier Income Trust (PPT), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), BlackRock MuniYield Michigan Quality Fund (MIY), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), and BlackRock MuniHoldings New York Quality Fund (MHN). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
DWS Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:KTF ) and Barings Corporate Investors (NYSE:MCI ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
DWS Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Barings Corporate Investors has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
57.7% of DWS Municipal Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of DWS Municipal Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Barings Corporate Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Barings Corporate Investors had 4 more articles in the media than DWS Municipal Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Barings Corporate Investors and 1 mentions for DWS Municipal Income Trust. DWS Municipal Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Barings Corporate Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Barings Corporate Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
DWS Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Barings Corporate Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. DWS Municipal Income Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Barings Corporate Investors has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Barings Corporate Investors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Barings Corporate Investors received 121 more outperform votes than DWS Municipal Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.65% of users gave Barings Corporate Investors an outperform vote while only 65.88% of users gave DWS Municipal Income Trust an outperform vote.
Summary Barings Corporate Investors beats DWS Municipal Income Trust on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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