PCM vs. ECF, PFO, KSM, NIM, PCF, MGF, CXE, SWZ, NMT, and JHI
Should you be buying PCM Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PCM Fund include Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), High Income Securities Fund (PCF), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), and John Hancock Investors Trust (JHI). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
PCM Fund (NYSE:PCM) and Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (NYSE:ECF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and profitability.
10.3% of PCM Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.9% of Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of PCM Fund shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund shares are owned 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.
PCM Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%.
PCM Fund has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, PCM Fund had 3 more articles in the media than Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for PCM Fund and 1 mentions for Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund. PCM Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund's score of 0.07 indicating that PCM Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
PCM Fund received 187 more outperform votes than Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
PCM Fund beats Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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