PFO vs. MUA, HRZN, MYN, TYG, HQL, KTF, MCI, SOR, PPT, and MIY
Should you be buying Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund include BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), Abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), Barings Corporate Investors (MCI), Source Capital (SOR), Putnam Premier Income Trust (PPT), and BlackRock MuniYield Michigan Quality Fund (MIY). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PFO) and BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (NYSE:MUA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, community ranking and valuation.
BlackRock MuniAssets Fund received 96 more outperform votes than Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
12.9% of Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.4% of BlackRock MuniAssets Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of BlackRock MuniAssets Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock MuniAssets Fund has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund had 2 more articles in the media than BlackRock MuniAssets Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund and 0 mentions for BlackRock MuniAssets Fund. Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat BlackRock MuniAssets Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. BlackRock MuniAssets Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%.
Summary
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund beats BlackRock MuniAssets Fund on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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