PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK) Competitors

PIMCO High Income Fund (NYSE:PHK) and PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PTY) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, risk, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and institutional ownership.

Is PHK or PTY a better dividend stock?

PIMCO High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.1%. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PHK or PTY?

PIMCO High Income Fund received 51 more outperform votes than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.56% of users gave PIMCO High Income Fund an outperform vote while only 64.92% of users gave PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
PIMCO High Income Fund	Outperform Votes 175 70.56%	Underperform Votes 73 29.44%
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	Outperform Votes 124 64.92%	Underperform Votes 67 35.08%

Do institutionals & insiders believe in PHK or PTY?

11.8% of PIMCO High Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, PHK or PTY?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
PIMCO High Income Fund	$99.89M	8.18	N/A	N/A	N/A
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	$230.95M	10.84	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has more risk and volatility, PHK or PTY?

PIMCO High Income Fund has a beta of 0.66, meaning that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is PHK or PTY more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
PIMCO High Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media refer more to PHK or PTY?

In the previous week, PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund had 4 more articles in the media than PIMCO High Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund and 1 mentions for PIMCO High Income Fund. PIMCO High Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's score of 0.59 indicating that PIMCO High Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
PIMCO High Income Fund	Positive
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	Positive

Summary

PIMCO High Income Fund beats PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.