ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA) Competitors

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PTY) and ASA Gold and Precious Metals (NYSE:ASA) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and institutional ownership.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, PTY or ASA?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	$230.95M	10.76	N/A	N/A	N/A
ASA Gold and Precious Metals	$118.94M	6.09	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is PTY or ASA a better dividend stock?

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. ASA Gold and Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%.

Is PTY or ASA more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
ASA Gold and Precious Metals	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PTY or ASA?

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund received 38 more outperform votes than ASA Gold and Precious Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.49% of users gave ASA Gold and Precious Metals an outperform vote while only 64.92% of users gave PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	Outperform Votes 124 64.92%	Underperform Votes 67 35.08%
ASA Gold and Precious Metals	Outperform Votes 86 70.49%	Underperform Votes 36 29.51%

Does the media favor PTY or ASA?

In the previous week, ASA Gold and Precious Metals had 5 more articles in the media than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for ASA Gold and Precious Metals and 2 mentions for PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.42 beat ASA Gold and Precious Metals' score of 0.95 indicating that PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
ASA Gold and Precious Metals	3 Very Positive mention(s)	3 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more volatility & risk, PTY or ASA?

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 0.84, indicating that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASA Gold and Precious Metals has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do institutionals and insiders have more ownership in PTY or ASA?

10.3% of PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of ASA Gold and Precious Metals shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund beats ASA Gold and Precious Metals on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.