JHI vs. BANX, OFS, SPE, DHF, VBF, GROW, VTN, EMD, CZWI, and COOL
Should you be buying John Hancock Investors Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Hancock Investors Trust include ArrowMark Financial (BANX), OFS Capital (OFS), Special Opportunities Fund (SPE), BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (DHF), Invesco Bond Fund (VBF), U.S. Global Investors (GROW), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade New York Municipals (VTN), Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund (EMD), Citizens Community Bancorp (CZWI), and Corner Growth Acquisition (COOL).
ArrowMark Financial (NASDAQ:BANX) and John Hancock Investors Trust (NYSE:JHI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, community ranking, profitability, valuation and risk.
ArrowMark Financial has higher revenue and earnings than John Hancock Investors Trust.
ArrowMark Financial has a beta of 0.45, suggesting that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Hancock Investors Trust has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
ArrowMark Financial received 161 more outperform votes than John Hancock Investors Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.27% of users gave ArrowMark Financial an outperform vote while only 69.78% of users gave John Hancock Investors Trust an outperform vote.
ArrowMark Financial pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. John Hancock Investors Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. ArrowMark Financial has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. ArrowMark Financial is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, ArrowMark Financial had 2 more articles in the media than John Hancock Investors Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for ArrowMark Financial and 0 mentions for John Hancock Investors Trust. John Hancock Investors Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat ArrowMark Financial's score of 0.00 indicating that ArrowMark Financial is being referred to more favorably in the media.
24.9% of ArrowMark Financial shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.0% of John Hancock Investors Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of ArrowMark Financial shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
ArrowMark Financial beats John Hancock Investors Trust on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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