PCM vs. SSSS, MGF, NMT, SWZ, PFO, KSM, ECF, CXE, NMI, and NIM
Should you be buying PCM Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PCM Fund include SuRo Capital (SSSS), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), 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), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), and Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
SuRo Capital (NASDAQ:SSSS) and PCM Fund (NYSE:PCM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.
SuRo Capital has a beta of 1.56, suggesting that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PCM Fund has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SuRo Capital had 2 more articles in the media than PCM Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for SuRo Capital and 1 mentions for PCM Fund. SuRo Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat PCM Fund's score of 0.20 indicating that PCM Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 PCM Fund's return on equity.
SuRo Capital has higher revenue and earnings than PCM Fund.
SuRo Capital presently has a consensus price target of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 57.07%. Given PCM Fund's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe SuRo Capital is more favorable than PCM Fund.
13.0% of SuRo Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of PCM Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 4.2% of SuRo Capital shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of PCM Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
PCM Fund received 144 more outperform votes than SuRo Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.10% of users gave PCM Fund an outperform vote while only 70.49% of users gave SuRo Capital an outperform vote.
Summary
SuRo Capital beats PCM Fund on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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