PTY vs. USA, ADX, NUV, GSBD, TY, GAB, RVT, STEW, HTGC, and CET
Should you be buying PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund include Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (USA), Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund (NUV), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Tri-Continental (TY), The Gabelli Equity Trust (GAB), Royce Value Trust (RVT), SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Hercules Capital (HTGC), and Central Securities (CET). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (NYSE:USA) and PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PTY) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has a beta of 1.18, suggesting that its share price is 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 0.97, suggesting that its share price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500.
9.9% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Liberty All-Star Equity Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund received 199 more outperform votes than PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.87% of users gave Liberty All-Star Equity Fund an outperform vote while only 64.92% of users gave PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund had 2 more articles in the media than Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund and 1 mentions for Liberty All-Star Equity Fund. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's score of 0.54 indicating that PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Liberty All-Star Equity Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund beats PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund on 7 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.
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