NMT vs. SWZ, MGF, SSSS, PCM, NMI, PFO, KSM, ECF, BCV, and CXE
Should you be buying Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund include The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), SuRo Capital (SSSS), PCM Fund (PCM), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Bancroft Fund (BCV), and MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
The Swiss Helvetia Fund (NYSE:SWZ) and Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings and valuation.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund has lower revenue, but higher earnings than The Swiss Helvetia Fund.
The Swiss Helvetia Fund received 36 more outperform votes than Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.50% of users gave The Swiss Helvetia Fund an outperform vote while only 68.07% of users gave Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote.
The Swiss Helvetia Fund has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500.
The Swiss Helvetia Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%. Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. The Swiss Helvetia Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. The Swiss Helvetia Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
41.1% of The Swiss Helvetia Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of The Swiss Helvetia Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, The Swiss Helvetia Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for The Swiss Helvetia Fund and 2 mentions for Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund. The Swiss Helvetia Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.50 indicating that Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
The Swiss Helvetia Fund beats Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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