JHI vs. RMT, MVF, BBH, NQP, MUA, HRZN, MYN, TYG, KTF, and HQL
Should you be buying John Hancock Investors Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of John Hancock Investors Trust include Royce Micro-Cap Trust (RMT), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), VanEck Biotech ETF (BBH), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), and Abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust (NYSE:RMT) and John Hancock Investors Trust (NYSE:JHI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. John Hancock Investors Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.89 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.6%.
In the previous week, Royce Micro-Cap Trust had 2 more articles in the media than John Hancock Investors Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Royce Micro-Cap Trust and 1 mentions for John Hancock Investors Trust. Royce Micro-Cap Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat John Hancock Investors Trust's score of 1.44 indicating that John Hancock Investors Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
John Hancock Investors Trust received 11 more outperform votes than Royce Micro-Cap Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.78% of users gave John Hancock Investors Trust an outperform vote while only 68.25% of users gave Royce Micro-Cap Trust an outperform vote.
35.0% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 27.0% of John Hancock Investors Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Royce Micro-Cap Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Royce Micro-Cap Trust has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, John Hancock Investors Trust has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Royce Micro-Cap Trust beats John Hancock Investors Trust on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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