SSSS vs. MGF, PCM, NMT, SWZ, PFO, KSM, ECF, NMI, CXE, and NIM
Should you be buying SuRo Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of SuRo Capital include MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), PCM Fund (PCM), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), and Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
MFS Government Markets Income Trust (NYSE:MGF) and SuRo Capital (NASDAQ:SSSS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability and institutional ownership.
54.8% of MFS Government Markets Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of SuRo Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of SuRo Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
MFS Government Markets Income Trust has a beta of 0.27, indicating that its share price is 73% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SuRo Capital has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SuRo Capital has higher revenue and earnings than MFS Government Markets Income Trust.
SuRo Capital has a net margin of 76.81% compared to SuRo Capital's net margin of 0.00%. SuRo Capital's return on equity of 0.00% beat MFS Government Markets Income Trust's return on equity.
SuRo Capital received 43 more outperform votes than MFS Government Markets Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, SuRo Capital had 6 more articles in the media than MFS Government Markets Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for SuRo Capital and 0 mentions for MFS Government Markets Income Trust. MFS Government Markets Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat SuRo Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that SuRo Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
SuRo Capital has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 55.04%. Given MFS Government Markets Income Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SuRo Capital is more favorable than MFS Government Markets Income Trust.
Summary
SuRo Capital beats MFS Government Markets Income Trust on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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