PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY) Competitors

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PTY) and FS KKR Capital (NYSE:FSK) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk and institutional ownership.

Is PTY or FSK a better dividend stock?

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%. FS KKR Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.0%. FS KKR Capital pays out 136.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PTY or FSK?

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund received 45 more outperform votes than FS KKR Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.92% of users gave PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund an outperform vote while only 49.07% of users gave FS KKR Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	Outperform Votes 124 64.92%	Underperform Votes 67 35.08%
FS KKR Capital	Outperform Votes 79 49.07%	Underperform Votes 82 50.93%

Is PTY or FSK more profitable?

FS KKR Capital has a net margin of 29.98% compared to PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's net margin of 0.00%. FS KKR Capital's return on equity of 12.31% beat PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
FS KKR Capital	29.98%	12.31%	5.47%

Do analysts recommend PTY or FSK?

FS KKR Capital has a consensus target price of $20.25, indicating a potential downside of 4.88%. Given FS KKR Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe FS KKR Capital is more favorable than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
FS KKR Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Does the media prefer PTY or FSK?

In the previous week, FS KKR Capital had 9 more articles in the media than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for FS KKR Capital and 0 mentions for PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.10 beat FS KKR Capital's score of -0.07 indicating that PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	Positive
FS KKR Capital	Neutral

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of PTY or FSK?

10.3% of PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.3% of FS KKR Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of FS KKR Capital shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, PTY or FSK?

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FS KKR Capital has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has higher earnings & valuation, PTY or FSK?

FS KKR Capital has higher revenue and earnings than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	$211.84M	10.35	N/A	N/A	N/A
FS KKR Capital	$607M	9.82	$696M	$1.88	11.32

Summary

FS KKR Capital beats PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.