Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO) Competitors

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PFO) and Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (NYSE:TYG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, dividends, risk and analyst recommendations.

Is PFO or TYG a better dividend stock?

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Tortoise Energy Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $3.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%.

Which has higher valuation & earnings, PFO or TYG?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	$24.27M	4.76	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure	$214.33M	1.99	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is PFO or TYG more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in PFO or TYG?

Tortoise Energy Infrastructure received 243 more outperform votes than Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 243 69.43%	Underperform Votes 107 30.57%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in PFO or TYG?

12.9% of Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.5% of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to PFO or TYG?

In the previous week, Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Tortoise Energy Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund and 1 mentions for Tortoise Energy Infrastructure. Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Tortoise Energy Infrastructure's score of 1.18 indicating that Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Which has more risk and volatility, PFO or TYG?

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tortoise Energy Infrastructure has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Tortoise Energy Infrastructure beats Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.