JHI vs. KF, PCF, CXE, NAZ, NIM, ECF, PFO, KSM, PCM, and SWZ
Should you be buying John Hancock Investors Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Hancock Investors Trust include The Korea Fund (KF), High Income Securities Fund (PCF), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NAZ), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), PCM Fund (PCM), and The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
John Hancock Investors Trust (NYSE:JHI) and The Korea Fund (NYSE:KF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
John Hancock Investors Trust has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Korea Fund has a beta of 1.19, meaning that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500.
John Hancock Investors Trust received 14 more outperform votes than The Korea Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.78% of users gave John Hancock Investors Trust an outperform vote while only 66.40% of users gave The Korea Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, The Korea Fund had 1 more articles in the media than John Hancock Investors Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for The Korea Fund and 1 mentions for John Hancock Investors Trust. The Korea Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat John Hancock Investors Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that The Korea Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
27.0% of John Hancock Investors Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.0% of The Korea Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 59.5% of The Korea Fund shares are owned by company 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.
Summary
The Korea Fund beats John Hancock Investors Trust on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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