CIF vs. PCF, KF, JHI, CXE, ECF, NIM, PFO, SWZ, KSM, and NMT
Should you be buying MFS Intermediate High Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Intermediate High Income Fund include High Income Securities Fund (PCF), The Korea Fund (KF), John Hancock Investors Trust (JHI), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), and Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
High Income Securities Fund (NYSE:PCF) and MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE:CIF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk and earnings.
High Income Securities Fund has a beta of 0.92, suggesting that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
High Income Securities Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. MFS Intermediate High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. High Income Securities Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. High Income Securities Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, High Income Securities Fund had 2 more articles in the media than MFS Intermediate High Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for High Income Securities Fund and 1 mentions for MFS Intermediate High Income Fund. High Income Securities Fund's average media sentiment score of 2.00 beat MFS Intermediate High Income Fund's score of 1.03 indicating that MFS Intermediate High Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
16.6% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of MFS Intermediate High Income 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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
High Income Securities Fund received 104 more outperform votes than MFS Intermediate High Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave MFS Intermediate High Income Fund an outperform vote while only 62.13% of users gave High Income Securities Fund an outperform vote.
Summary
High Income Securities Fund beats MFS Intermediate High Income Fund on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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