BSRR vs HPS Comparison

Sierra Bancorp is a California-based bank holding company, which offers a range of retail and commercial banking services. it offers a wide range of deposit products and services for individuals and businesses including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market demand accounts, time deposits, retirement accounts, and sweep accounts. The company's lending activities cover real estate, commercial (including small business), mortgage warehouse, agricultural, and consumer loans, and also offers commercial construction loans and multifamily and agricultural credit facilities among other types of real estate loans.

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide a high level of current income consistent with preservation of capital. The fund's secondary investment objective is to provide growth of capital to the extent consistent with its primary investment objective. It seeks to achieve the objectives by investing a majority of its assets in preferred stocks and other preferred securities, including convertible preferred securities. The portfolio composition of the company consists of the U.S. preferred securities, foreign preferred securities, common stocks, corporate bonds, and the short-term investments.