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John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (PDT) Competitors

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PDT vs. ADX, USA, NUV, GAB, RVT, STEW, OXLC, BCAT, CET, and GSBD

Should you be buying John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund include Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Royce Value Trust (RVT), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), Central Securities (CET), and Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund vs.

Adams Diversified Equity Fund (NYSE:ADX) and John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE:PDT) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Adams Diversified Equity FundN/A N/A N/A
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund N/A N/A N/A

Adams Diversified Equity Fund received 25 more outperform votes than John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund an outperform vote while only 53.09% of users gave Adams Diversified Equity Fund an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Adams Diversified Equity FundOutperform Votes
146
53.09%
Underperform Votes
129
46.91%
John Hancock Premium Dividend FundOutperform Votes
121
64.71%
Underperform Votes
66
35.29%

28.4% of Adams Diversified Equity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Adams Diversified Equity Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Adams Diversified Equity Fund$564.12M4.24N/AN/AN/A
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund$198.30M3.19N/AN/AN/A

Adams Diversified Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $3.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 16.6%. John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%.

In the previous week, Adams Diversified Equity Fund had 3 more articles in the media than John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Adams Diversified Equity Fund and 2 mentions for John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund. Adams Diversified Equity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund's score of 0.22 indicating that Adams Diversified Equity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Adams Diversified Equity Fund
5 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Adams Diversified Equity Fund has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Adams Diversified Equity Fund beats John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PDT vs. The Competition

MetricJohn Hancock Premium Dividend FundManagement investment, open IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$630.55M$630.55M$11.64B$19.70B
Dividend Yield7.75%7.75%5.46%3.84%
P/E RatioN/AN/A22.8435.13
Price / Sales3.193.1927.5936.36
Price / CashN/AN/A17.6217.51
Price / BookN/AN/A2.854.78
Net IncomeN/AN/A$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance3.13%3.13%1.72%1.62%
1 Month Performance5.94%5.94%9.94%13.00%
1 Year Performance8.90%8.90%538.82%5.59%

John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PDT
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund
N/A$12.70
-1.0%
N/A+9.5%$624.45M$198.30M0.00147,000News Coverage
ADX
Adams Diversified Equity Fund
N/A$19.83
+2.9%
N/A+1.1%$2.33B$564.12M0.0030Positive News
USA
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund
N/A$6.67
+2.2%
N/A-2.0%$1.81B$259.99M0.00N/AUpcoming Earnings
NUV
Nuveen Municipal Value Fund
N/A$8.69
-0.3%
N/A-0.3%$1.80B$200.53M0.00640
GAB
The Gabelli Equity Trust
N/A$5.72
+2.2%
N/A+3.2%$1.76B$203.01M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
RVT
Royce Value Trust
N/A$15.01
+4.0%
N/A-0.1%$1.73B$9.80M0.0050Positive News
STEW
SRH Total Return Fund
N/A$17.60
+1.5%
N/A+21.6%$1.70B$550.34M0.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
OXLC
Oxford Lane Capital
2.0687 of 5 stars
$4.83
+1.0%
N/A-15.1%$1.67B$194.42M5.82601News Coverage
Positive News
BCAT
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust
N/A$15.20
+2.5%
N/A-10.2%$1.63B$197.67M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
CET
Central Securities
N/A$46.45
+2.4%
N/A+7.8%$1.34B$296.20M0.006Positive News
High Trading Volume
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.4088 of 5 stars
$11.07
+2.3%
$12.00
+8.5%
-25.6%$1.30B$78.71M15.81N/APositive News

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This page (NYSE:PDT) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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