PFO vs. ECF, NIM, PCM, KSM, CXE, PCF, MGF, SWZ, NMT, and JHI
Should you be buying Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund include Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), PCM Fund (PCM), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), High Income Securities Fund (PCF), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), 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.
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PFO) and Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (NYSE:ECF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
12.9% of Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.9% of Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund shares are owned by company 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.
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund has a beta of 1.1, indicating that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%.
In the previous week, Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund had 3 more articles in the media than Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund and 1 mentions for Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund. Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund and Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
Summary
Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund beats Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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