PCM vs. KSM, SWZ, PFO, ECF, MGF, NIM, NMT, CXE, NMI, and PCF
Should you be buying PCM Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PCM Fund include DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), and High Income Securities Fund (PCF). 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 investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
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%.
In the previous week, PCM Fund and PCM Fund both had 1 articles in the media. PCM Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that PCM Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
10.3% of PCM Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.8% of DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of PCM Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
PCM Fund has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share 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 share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
PCM Fund beats DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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