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The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ) Competitors

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$6.30 +0.02 (+0.32%)
Closing price 05/1/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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SWZ vs. MIN, JOF, MHN, ASG, IIF, MMT, BKT, TPVG, TDF, and MXF

Should you be buying The Swiss Helvetia Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Swiss Helvetia Fund include MFS Intermediate Income Trust (MIN), Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund (JOF), BlackRock MuniHoldings New York Quality Fund (MHN), Liberty All-Star Growth Fund (ASG), Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund (IIF), MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), and The Mexico Fund (MXF). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

The Swiss Helvetia Fund vs.

MFS Intermediate Income Trust (NYSE:MIN) and The Swiss Helvetia Fund (NYSE:SWZ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
MFS Intermediate Income TrustN/A N/A N/A
The Swiss Helvetia Fund N/A N/A N/A

The Swiss Helvetia Fund received 2 more outperform votes than MFS Intermediate Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.50% of users gave The Swiss Helvetia Fund an outperform vote while only 64.76% of users gave MFS Intermediate Income Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MFS Intermediate Income TrustOutperform Votes
147
64.76%
Underperform Votes
80
35.24%
The Swiss Helvetia FundOutperform Votes
149
74.50%
Underperform Votes
51
25.50%

In the previous week, MFS Intermediate Income Trust and MFS Intermediate Income Trust both had 1 articles in the media. MFS Intermediate Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.45 beat The Swiss Helvetia Fund's score of 0.45 indicating that MFS Intermediate Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
MFS Intermediate Income Trust Neutral
The Swiss Helvetia Fund Neutral

MFS Intermediate Income Trust has higher revenue and earnings than The Swiss Helvetia Fund.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
MFS Intermediate Income Trust$27.88M11.00N/AN/AN/A
The Swiss Helvetia Fund-$2.60M-31.52-$27.40MN/AN/A

MFS Intermediate Income Trust has a beta of 0.3, indicating that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Swiss Helvetia Fund has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

50.9% of MFS Intermediate Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.1% of The Swiss Helvetia Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of MFS Intermediate Income Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of The Swiss Helvetia Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

MFS Intermediate Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. The Swiss Helvetia Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%.

Summary

The Swiss Helvetia Fund beats MFS Intermediate Income Trust on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SWZ vs. The Competition

MetricThe Swiss Helvetia FundInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$81.84M$6.70B$11.10B$18.96B
Dividend Yield8.79%6.92%5.77%4.01%
P/E RatioN/A3.5222.1032.87
Price / Sales-31.5221.5626.3228.03
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6017.52
Price / BookN/A0.862.674.47
Net Income-$27.40M$66.51M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.96%0.88%0.68%0.59%
1 Month Performance-32.04%-2.09%-0.59%-3.54%
1 Year Performance-16.89%1.62%537.57%3.80%

The Swiss Helvetia Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SWZ
The Swiss Helvetia Fund
N/A$6.30
+0.3%
N/A-16.9%$81.84M$-2,596,943.000.00N/AShort Interest ↑
News Coverage
MIN
MFS Intermediate Income Trust
N/A$2.63
-0.4%
N/A+3.3%$299.29M$27.88M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
JOF
Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund
N/A$8.33
-0.6%
N/A+17.7%$293.42M$38.39M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News
High Trading Volume
MHN
BlackRock MuniHoldings New York Quality Fund
N/A$9.54
-1.8%
N/A-2.7%$288.51M$1.30M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News
ASG
Liberty All-Star Growth Fund
N/A$4.44
-3.5%
N/A-3.1%$258.57M$51.46M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News
IIF
Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund
N/A$25.40
+1.9%
N/A+11.5%$248.69M$63.07M0.00N/A
MMT
MFS Multimarket Income Trust
N/A$4.44
-0.9%
N/A+1.0%$245.54M$45.79M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
News Coverage
BKT
BlackRock Income Trust
N/A$11.27
-1.0%
N/A+3.4%$240.14M$3.59M0.00N/APositive News
TPVG
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC
1.8786 of 5 stars
$5.85
-2.2%
$6.96
+18.9%
-36.5%$234.80M$45.53M27.86N/AUpcoming Earnings
Positive News
TDF
Templeton Dragon Fund
N/A$8.78
-0.1%
N/A+11.7%$222.60M$27.67M0.00147,000Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
MXF
The Mexico Fund
N/A$14.88
-0.9%
N/A-14.6%$217.84M$-5,770,281.000.00N/APositive News
High Trading Volume

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