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DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF) Competitors

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$8.93 +0.02 (+0.22%)
Closing price 05/22/2025 03:57 PM Eastern
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KTF vs. CET, GSBD, MFIC, NMFC, PFLT, BCSF, MUC, BBDC, AWF, and HQH

Should you be buying DWS Municipal Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of DWS Municipal Income Trust include Central Securities (CET), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), Barings BDC (BBDC), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), and Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

DWS Municipal Income Trust vs.

Central Securities (NYSE:CET) and DWS Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:KTF) are both small-cap 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.

8.7% of Central Securities shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.7% of DWS Municipal Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 9.5% of Central Securities shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of DWS Municipal Income Trust 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.

Central Securities has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DWS Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its share price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Central Securities pays an annual dividend of $2.25 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. DWS Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Central SecuritiesN/A N/A N/A
DWS Municipal Income Trust N/A N/A N/A

DWS Municipal Income Trust received 112 more outperform votes than Central Securities when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Central SecuritiesN/AN/A
DWS Municipal Income TrustOutperform Votes
112
65.88%
Underperform Votes
58
34.12%

In the previous week, DWS Municipal Income Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Central Securities. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for DWS Municipal Income Trust and 1 mentions for Central Securities. Central Securities' average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat DWS Municipal Income Trust's score of 0.67 indicating that Central Securities is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Central Securities
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
DWS Municipal Income Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Central Securities$296.20M4.50N/AN/AN/A
DWS Municipal Income Trust$35.07M9.97N/AN/AN/A

Summary

DWS Municipal Income Trust beats Central Securities on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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KTF vs. The Competition

MetricDWS Municipal Income TrustInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$349.82M$6.92B$11.47B$19.30B
Dividend Yield5.55%6.79%5.45%3.83%
P/E RatioN/A3.5722.4234.53
Price / Sales9.9721.8627.6234.83
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.51
Price / BookN/A0.882.774.69
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-2.78%-0.92%-1.34%-2.43%
1 Month Performance0.92%2.85%5.24%6.27%
1 Year Performance-4.90%0.98%538.04%5.78%

DWS Municipal Income Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
KTF
DWS Municipal Income Trust
N/A$8.93
+0.2%
N/A-5.3%$349.82M$35.07M0.00N/A
CET
Central Securities
N/A$46.75
-0.5%
N/A+6.7%$1.35B$296.20M0.006
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.4989 of 5 stars
$11.33
+0.4%
$12.00
+5.9%
-28.0%$1.33B$67.93M16.19N/APositive News
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.7161 of 5 stars
$12.87
+0.1%
$14.00
+8.8%
-17.9%$1.20B$110.35M8.25N/A
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
2.1879 of 5 stars
$10.84
+0.8%
$10.67
-1.6%
-15.7%$1.17B$118.17M10.32N/APositive News
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.5035 of 5 stars
$10.34
+1.1%
$11.08
+7.2%
-10.6%$1.03B$114.06M7.39658
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
1.8583 of 5 stars
$15.76
+0.5%
$16.50
+4.7%
-4.4%$1.02B$131.73M7.921,000
MUC
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund
N/A$10.45
-0.4%
N/A-4.5%$1.00B$6.39M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
BBDC
Barings BDC
2.3124 of 5 stars
$9.14
+0.4%
$9.33
+2.1%
-7.8%$963.44M$111.33M8.7926News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$10.80
flat
N/A-0.7%$931.28M$152.17M0.00N/APositive News
Upcoming Earnings
HQH
Abrdn Healthcare Investors
N/A$15.84
+1.1%
N/A-8.3%$853.17M$186.46M0.00147,000Positive News
Dividend Increase
Gap Down

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This page (NYSE:KTF) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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