DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF) Competitors

Barings Corporate Investors (NYSE:MCI) and DWS Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:KTF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.

Do analysts prefer MCI or KTF?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Barings Corporate Investors	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
DWS Municipal Income Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in MCI or KTF?

57.7% of DWS Municipal Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of Barings Corporate Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of DWS Municipal Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more volatility and risk, MCI or KTF?

Barings Corporate Investors has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DWS Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor MCI or KTF?

Barings Corporate Investors received 121 more outperform votes than DWS Municipal Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.65% of users gave Barings Corporate Investors an outperform vote while only 65.88% of users gave DWS Municipal Income Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Barings Corporate Investors	Outperform Votes 233 75.65%	Underperform Votes 75 24.35%
DWS Municipal Income Trust	Outperform Votes 112 65.88%	Underperform Votes 58 34.12%

Is MCI or KTF more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Barings Corporate Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A
DWS Municipal Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is MCI or KTF a better dividend stock?

Barings Corporate Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. DWS Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Barings Corporate Investors has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and DWS Municipal Income Trust has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Barings Corporate Investors is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Does the media favor MCI or KTF?

In the previous week, Barings Corporate Investors had 4 more articles in the media than DWS Municipal Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Barings Corporate Investors and 1 mentions for DWS Municipal Income Trust. DWS Municipal Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Barings Corporate Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Barings Corporate Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Barings Corporate Investors	1 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
DWS Municipal Income Trust	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, MCI or KTF?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Barings Corporate Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
DWS Municipal Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Barings Corporate Investors beats DWS Municipal Income Trust on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.