NMI vs. KTF, HQL, MCI, SOR, PPT, MIY, MHN, PMO, ASG, and WHF
Should you be buying Nuveen Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Municipal Income Fund include DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), Abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL), Barings Corporate Investors (MCI), Source Capital (SOR), Putnam Premier Income Trust (PPT), BlackRock MuniYield Michigan Quality Fund (MIY), BlackRock MuniHoldings New York Quality Fund (MHN), Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust (PMO), Liberty All-Star Growth Fund (ASG), and WhiteHorse Finance (WHF). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
DWS Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:KTF) and Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NMI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and community ranking.
DWS Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its stock price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500.
DWS Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Nuveen Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. DWS Municipal Income Trust has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Nuveen Municipal Income Fund has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Nuveen Municipal Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, DWS Municipal Income Trust and DWS Municipal Income Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Nuveen Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat DWS Municipal Income Trust's score of 0.34 indicating that DWS Municipal Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
57.7% of DWS Municipal Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of Nuveen Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of DWS Municipal Income Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Nuveen Municipal Income Fund shares are held by company 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.
DWS Municipal Income Trust received 96 more outperform votes than Nuveen Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.88% of users gave DWS Municipal Income Trust an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Nuveen Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote.
Summary
DWS Municipal Income Trust beats Nuveen Municipal Income Fund on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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