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Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust (PMO) Competitors

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$9.86 +0.04 (+0.36%)
Closing price 05/22/2025 03:55 PM Eastern
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PMO vs. GAM, MQY, MYI, VMO, IIM, MMU, VGM, VKQ, VCV, and IQI

Should you be buying Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust include General American Investors (GAM), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), Invesco Value Municipal Income Trust (IIM), Western Asset Managed Municipals Fund (MMU), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals (VGM), Invesco Municipal Trust (VKQ), Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust (VCV), and Invesco Quality Municipal Income Trust (IQI). These companies are all part of the "misc." industry.

Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust vs.

General American Investors (NYSE:GAM) and Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust (NYSE:PMO) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

In the previous week, General American Investors had 5 more articles in the media than Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for General American Investors and 0 mentions for Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust. General American Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that General American Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
General American Investors Positive
Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust Neutral

General American Investors has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
General American Investors$251.67M4.97N/AN/AN/A
Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust$69.50M4.51N/AN/AN/A

36.8% of General American Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 20.4% of Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.3% of General American Investors shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

General American Investors pays an annual dividend of $4.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%.

Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust received 27 more outperform votes than General American Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.40% of users gave Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust an outperform vote while only 59.01% of users gave General American Investors an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
General American InvestorsOutperform Votes
95
59.01%
Underperform Votes
66
40.99%
Putnam Municipal Opportunities TrustOutperform Votes
122
67.40%
Underperform Votes
59
32.60%

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
General American InvestorsN/A N/A N/A
Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust N/A N/A N/A

Summary

General American Investors beats Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust on 8 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PMO vs. The Competition

MetricPutnam Municipal Opportunities TrustInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$313.50M$6.92B$11.48B$19.29B
Dividend Yield4.60%6.79%5.45%3.83%
P/E RatioN/A3.5722.4234.52
Price / Sales4.5121.8627.6034.82
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.51
Price / BookN/A0.882.774.69
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-2.76%-0.92%-1.34%-2.43%
1 Month Performance0.66%2.85%5.23%6.27%
1 Year Performance-1.15%0.98%538.04%5.78%

Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PMO
Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust
N/A$9.86
+0.4%
N/A-2.3%$313.50M$69.50M0.00801Positive News
GAM
General American Investors
N/A$53.37
+0.1%
N/A+9.8%$1.25B$251.67M0.003,313Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
MQY
BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund
N/A$11.17
-0.2%
N/A-8.8%$816.27M$16.07M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
MYI
BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III
N/A$10.52
-0.7%
N/A-6.0%$716.02M$11.53M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
VMO
Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust
N/A$9.26
-0.9%
N/A-4.7%$624.50M$24.46M0.00N/APositive News
IIM
Invesco Value Municipal Income Trust
N/A$11.83
-0.3%
N/A+0.7%$556.81M$22.00M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
MMU
Western Asset Managed Municipals Fund
N/A$10.05
-0.2%
N/A-3.2%$548.92M$60.65M0.00147,000Positive News
Dividend Announcement
VGM
Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals
N/A$9.57
-0.7%
N/A-2.4%$519M$21.00M0.00147,000Positive News
VKQ
Invesco Municipal Trust
N/A$9.27
-0.9%
N/A-4.3%$512.97M$20.67M0.00147,000
VCV
Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust
N/A$10.49
-1.8%
N/A+4.8%$502.38M$18.10M0.00N/A
IQI
Invesco Quality Municipal Income Trust
N/A$9.37
-0.6%
N/A-3.1%$495.52M$20.51M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NYSE:PMO) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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