KSM vs. PCM, MGF, NMT, SWZ, NMI, BCV, PFO, ECF, SSSS, and NIM
Should you be buying DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust include PCM Fund (PCM), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), Bancroft Fund (BCV), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), SuRo Capital (SSSS), and Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:KSM) and PCM Fund (NYSE:PCM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and community ranking.
DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.34 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. PCM Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.96 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%.
53.8% of DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of PCM Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of PCM Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PCM Fund received 102 more outperform votes than DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.10% of users gave PCM Fund an outperform vote while only 66.93% of users gave DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust had 1 more articles in the media than PCM Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust and 0 mentions for PCM Fund. DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat PCM Fund's score of 0.77 indicating that DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.57, meaning that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PCM Fund has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
PCM Fund beats DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust on 4 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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