HPI vs PESI Comparison

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. Its primary 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 its investment objectives by investing in securities that may be undervalued relative to similar securities in the marketplace. The fund's principal investment strategies include investing a majority of its assets in preferred stocks and other preferred securities. Its portfolio composition consists of U.S preferred securities, common stocks, foreign preferred securities, corporate bonds, and short-term investments.

Perma-Fix Environmental Services Inc is a nuclear services company and provider of nuclear and mixed waste management services. The company's nuclear waste services include treatment and management of radioactive and mixed waste (waste containing both hazardous and low-level radioactive waste). The company operates through two segments: i) The treatment segment: It offers nuclear, low-level radioactive, Mixed, hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, processing and disposal services, and ii) the Services segment which generates the majority of the revenue, provides on-site waste management services to commercial and government customers, technology-based services, construction, logistics, and transportation services among others.