PCF vs. CXE, NIM, ECF, PFO, JHI, KF, PCM, KSM, NAZ, and MGF
Should you be buying High Income Securities Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of High Income Securities Fund include MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), John Hancock Investors Trust (JHI), The Korea Fund (KF), PCM Fund (PCM), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NAZ), and MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust (NYSE:CXE) and High Income Securities Fund (NYSE:PCF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment and profitability.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. High Income Securities Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. MFS High Income Municipal Trust has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and High Income Securities Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, High Income Securities Fund has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MFS High Income Municipal Trust had 2 more articles in the media than High Income Securities Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MFS High Income Municipal Trust and 1 mentions for High Income Securities Fund. High Income Securities Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat MFS High Income Municipal Trust's score of -1.00 indicating that MFS High Income Municipal Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
High Income Securities Fund received 105 more outperform votes than MFS High Income Municipal Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
34.4% of MFS High Income Municipal Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 15.4% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held 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.
Summary
High Income Securities Fund beats MFS High Income Municipal Trust on 4 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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