IIF vs. ZTR, MMT, RCS, PMM, BKT, NCA, FUND, MQT, MVT, and RFI
Should you be buying Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund include Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund (ZTR), MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), PIMCO Strategic Income Fund (RCS), Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (PMM), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund (NCA), Sprott Focus Trust (FUND), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund II (MQT), BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT), and Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund (RFI). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund (NYSE:ZTR) and Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund (NYSE:IIF) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
47.1% of Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 37.0% of Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 5.7% of Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund has a beta of 1.16, suggesting that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund received 38 more outperform votes than Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund an outperform vote while only 64.39% of users gave Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund had 3 more articles in the media than Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund and 2 mentions for Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund. Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund's score of 0.30 indicating that Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund pays an annual dividend of $3.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund beats Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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