RCS vs. MMT, PMM, BKT, NCA, FUND, MVT, MIN, MQT, WHF, and TSI
Should you be buying PIMCO Strategic Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PIMCO Strategic Income Fund include MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (PMM), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund (NCA), Sprott Focus Trust (FUND), BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT), MFS Intermediate Income Trust (MIN), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund II (MQT), WhiteHorse Finance (WHF), and TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
MFS Multimarket Income Trust (NYSE:MMT) and PIMCO Strategic Income Fund (NYSE:RCS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, risk, community ranking and dividends.
MFS Multimarket Income Trust has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PIMCO Strategic Income Fund has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PIMCO Strategic Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than MFS Multimarket Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for PIMCO Strategic Income Fund and 0 mentions for MFS Multimarket Income Trust. MFS Multimarket Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat PIMCO Strategic Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that PIMCO Strategic Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
19.0% of MFS Multimarket Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.5% of PIMCO Strategic Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 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.
MFS Multimarket Income Trust received 6 more outperform votes than PIMCO Strategic Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
MFS Multimarket Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. PIMCO Strategic Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. PIMCO Strategic Income Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. PIMCO Strategic Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund beats MFS Multimarket Income Trust on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RCS and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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