PDT vs. EGBN, QD, TIGR, ALTI, UFCS, GAMI, UVE, VEL, IFN, and HOUS
Should you be buying John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund include Eagle Bancorp (EGBN), Qudian (QD), UP Fintech (TIGR), AlTi Global (ALTI), United Fire Group (UFCS), GAMCO Investors (GAMI), Universal Insurance (UVE), Velocity Financial (VEL), The India Fund (IFN), and Anywhere Real Estate (HOUS). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE:PDT) and Eagle Bancorp (NASDAQ:EGBN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations and community ranking.
13.0% of John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.0% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.1% of Eagle Bancorp shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Eagle Bancorp received 216 more outperform votes than John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund an outperform vote while only 59.86% of users gave Eagle Bancorp an outperform vote.
In the previous week, John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund had 2 more articles in the media than Eagle Bancorp. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for Eagle Bancorp. Eagle Bancorp's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund's score of 0.85 indicating that Eagle Bancorp is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Eagle Bancorp has a consensus target price of $23.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.97%. Given Eagle Bancorp's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Eagle Bancorp is more favorable than John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund.
Eagle Bancorp has higher revenue and earnings than John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund.
Eagle Bancorp has a net margin of 11.14% compared to John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Eagle Bancorp's return on equity of 6.11% beat John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund's return on equity.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Bancorp has a beta of 1.05, meaning that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500.
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%. Eagle Bancorp pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Eagle Bancorp pays out 71.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Summary
Eagle Bancorp beats John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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