NMT vs. SWZ, MGF, NMI, KSM, PCM, BCV, PFO, ECF, SSSS, and NIM
Should you be buying Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund include The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), PCM Fund (PCM), Bancroft Fund (BCV), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), SuRo Capital (SSSS), and Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
The Swiss Helvetia Fund (NYSE:SWZ) and Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.
The Swiss Helvetia Fund received 36 more outperform votes than Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.50% of users gave The Swiss Helvetia Fund an outperform vote while only 68.07% of users gave Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The Swiss Helvetia Fund.
The Swiss Helvetia Fund has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
41.1% of The Swiss Helvetia Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of The Swiss Helvetia Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, The Swiss Helvetia Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for The Swiss Helvetia Fund and 1 mentions for Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund. Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.17 beat The Swiss Helvetia Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that The Swiss Helvetia Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
The Swiss Helvetia Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. The Swiss Helvetia Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
The Swiss Helvetia Fund beats Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund on 9 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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