ZTR vs. RCS, MMT, IIF, BKT, PMM, FUND, MQT, MVT, NCA, and TSI
Should you be buying Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund include PIMCO Strategic Income Fund (RCS), MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund (IIF), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (PMM), Sprott Focus Trust (FUND), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund II (MQT), BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT), Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund (NCA), and TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund (NYSE:RCS) and Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund (NYSE:ZTR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, profitability, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation and institutional ownership.
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund received 19 more outperform votes than Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.58% of users gave Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave PIMCO Strategic Income Fund an outperform vote.
13.5% of PIMCO Strategic Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.1% of Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.7% of Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, PIMCO Strategic Income Fund and PIMCO Strategic Income Fund both had 1 articles in the media. PIMCO Strategic Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund has a beta of 0.98, meaning that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund has a beta of 1.17, meaning that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500.
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.4%.
Summary
Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund beats PIMCO Strategic Income Fund on 6 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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