MMT vs. RCS, PMM, BKT, NCA, WHF, MIN, FUND, MVT, RFI, and ASG
Should you be buying MFS Multimarket Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Multimarket Income Trust include PIMCO Strategic Income Fund (RCS), Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (PMM), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund (NCA), WhiteHorse Finance (WHF), MFS Intermediate Income Trust (MIN), Sprott Focus Trust (FUND), BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT), Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund (RFI), and Liberty All-Star Growth Fund (ASG). 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 superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and media sentiment.
In the previous week, PIMCO Strategic Income Fund had 2 more articles in the media than MFS Multimarket Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for PIMCO Strategic Income Fund and 1 mentions for MFS Multimarket Income Trust. PIMCO Strategic Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat MFS Multimarket Income Trust's score of -1.00 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 endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
MFS Multimarket Income Trust has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PIMCO Strategic Income Fund has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 8.7%. PIMCO Strategic Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.6%.
Summary
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund beats MFS Multimarket Income Trust on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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