PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK) Competitors

PIMCO High Income Fund (NYSE:PHK) and Adams Diversified Equity Fund (NYSE:ADX) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation and risk.

Is PHK or ADX a better dividend stock?

PIMCO High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Adams Diversified Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%.

Do analysts prefer PHK or ADX?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PIMCO High Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Adams Diversified Equity Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PHK or ADX?

PIMCO High Income Fund received 29 more outperform votes than Adams Diversified Equity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.56% of users gave PIMCO High Income Fund an outperform vote while only 53.09% of users gave Adams Diversified Equity Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
PIMCO High Income Fund	Outperform Votes 175 70.56%	Underperform Votes 73 29.44%
Adams Diversified Equity Fund	Outperform Votes 146 53.09%	Underperform Votes 129 46.91%

Does the media favor PHK or ADX?

In the previous week, Adams Diversified Equity Fund had 9 more articles in the media than PIMCO High Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Adams Diversified Equity Fund and 1 mentions for PIMCO High Income Fund. Adams Diversified Equity Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.76 beat PIMCO High Income Fund's score of 0.47 indicating that Adams Diversified Equity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
PIMCO High Income Fund	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Adams Diversified Equity Fund	6 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is PHK or ADX more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PIMCO High Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Adams Diversified Equity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has higher earnings and valuation, PHK or ADX?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PIMCO High Income Fund	$92.95M	7.91	N/A	N/A	N/A
Adams Diversified Equity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of PHK or ADX?

11.8% of PIMCO High Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.4% of Adams Diversified Equity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Adams Diversified Equity Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, PHK or ADX?

PIMCO High Income Fund has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Adams Diversified Equity Fund has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Adams Diversified Equity Fund beats PIMCO High Income Fund on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.