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PDT vs. ADX, USA, GAB, RVT, STEW, OXLC, BCAT, GSBD, CET, and MFIC

Should you be buying John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund include Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Royce Value Trust (RVT), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Central Securities (CET), and MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund vs.

Adams Diversified Equity Fund (NYSE:ADX) and John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE:PDT) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Adams Diversified Equity FundN/A N/A N/A
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund N/A N/A N/A

Adams Diversified Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 15.4%. John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.6%.

28.4% of Adams Diversified Equity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Adams Diversified Equity Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Adams Diversified Equity Fund has a beta of 1.01, indicating that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund has a beta of 0.9, indicating that its stock price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Adams Diversified Equity Fund had 3 more articles in the media than John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Adams Diversified Equity Fund and 2 mentions for John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund. Adams Diversified Equity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.27 beat John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund's score of 0.08 indicating that Adams Diversified Equity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Adams Diversified Equity Fund
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Adams Diversified Equity Fund$564.12M3.95N/AN/AN/A
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund$198.30M3.22N/AN/AN/A

Adams Diversified Equity Fund received 25 more outperform votes than John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund an outperform vote while only 53.09% of users gave Adams Diversified Equity Fund an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Adams Diversified Equity FundOutperform Votes
146
53.09%
Underperform Votes
129
46.91%
John Hancock Premium Dividend FundOutperform Votes
121
64.71%
Underperform Votes
66
35.29%

Summary

Adams Diversified Equity Fund beats John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PDT vs. The Competition

MetricJohn Hancock Premium Dividend FundManagement investment, open IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$638.91M$639.41M$11.25B$19.33B
Dividend Yield7.63%7.63%5.57%3.75%
P/E RatioN/AN/A22.6332.92
Price / Sales3.223.2225.7226.59
Price / CashN/AN/A17.6117.54
Price / BookN/AN/A2.744.52
Net IncomeN/AN/A$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.39%0.43%0.23%-1.37%
1 Month Performance0.19%0.23%495.53%-4.11%
1 Year Performance11.46%11.50%533.10%3.29%

John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PDT
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund
N/A$12.99
+0.5%
N/A+10.8%$638.91M$198.30M0.00147,000Short Interest ↑
ADX
Adams Diversified Equity Fund
N/A$19.44
+1.5%
N/A-1.3%$2.29B$564.12M0.0030News Coverage
Positive News
USA
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund
N/A$6.74
+1.4%
N/A-6.8%$1.82B$259.99M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
Positive News
GAB
The Gabelli Equity Trust
N/A$5.67
+1.2%
N/A-0.3%$1.71B$203.01M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
RVT
Royce Value Trust
N/A$14.71
+1.5%
N/A-3.9%$1.70B$9.80M0.0050News Coverage
Positive News
STEW
SRH Total Return Fund
N/A$16.79
+0.9%
N/A+16.3%$1.62B$550.34M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
News Coverage
OXLC
Oxford Lane Capital
1.2981 of 5 stars
$4.60
+0.7%
N/A-8.3%$1.59B$194.42M5.54601Short Interest ↑
BCAT
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust
N/A$14.66
-0.1%
N/A-11.5%$1.58B$197.67M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.5969 of 5 stars
$12.28
+0.1%
$13.00
+5.9%
-17.6%$1.44B$78.71M17.54N/APositive News
CET
Central Securities
N/A$45.64
+0.8%
N/A+9.5%$1.32B$296.20M0.006Positive News
High Trading Volume
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
3.027 of 5 stars
$13.04
+0.5%
$14.60
+12.0%
-11.3%$1.22B$110.35M8.36N/AShort Interest ↑
Positive News
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