PDT vs. GAMI, CCB, PSBD, HBNC, CPF, GOOD, GMRE, VEL, SRG, and MSBI
Should you be buying John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund include GAMCO Investors (GAMI), Coastal Financial (CCB), Palmer Square Capital BDC (PSBD), Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), Central Pacific Financial (CPF), Gladstone Commercial (GOOD), Global Medical REIT (GMRE), Velocity Financial (VEL), Seritage Growth Properties (SRG), and Midland States Bancorp (MSBI). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE:PDT) and GAMCO Investors (NYSE:GAMI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
GAMCO Investors has a net margin of 25.53% compared to John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund's net margin of 0.00%. GAMCO Investors' return on equity of 36.38% beat John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund's return on equity.
In the previous week, John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund had 1 more articles in the media than GAMCO Investors. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund and 2 mentions for GAMCO Investors. GAMCO Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.58 beat John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund's score of 0.15 indicating that GAMCO Investors is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. GAMCO Investors pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. GAMCO Investors pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund received 121 more outperform votes than GAMCO Investors when rated by MarketBeat users.
GAMCO Investors has higher revenue and earnings than John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund.
13.0% of John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 3.3% of GAMCO Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 81.2% of GAMCO Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GAMCO Investors has a beta of 1.06, suggesting that its share price is 6% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
GAMCO Investors beats John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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