We are contrasting Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc. (NYSEAMERICAN:GRF) and Principal Real Estate Income Fund (NYSE:PGZ) on their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation. They both are Asset Management companies, competing one another.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc.	N/A	41.83	2.17M	0.58	12.92
Principal Real Estate Income Fund	N/A	0.00	N/A	0.00	0.00

We can see in table 1 the earnings per share (EPS), gross revenue and valuation of Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc. and Principal Real Estate Income Fund.

Profitability

Table 2 hightlights the return on equity, net margins and return on assets of the two companies.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc.	0.00%	0%	0%
Principal Real Estate Income Fund	0.00%	0%	0%

Dividends

Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc. dividend pay is $0.51 per share with 6.96% dividend yield annually. Principal Real Estate Income Fund does not pay a dividend.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

The shares of both Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc. and Principal Real Estate Income Fund are owned by institutional investors at 3.76% and 0% respectively. Insiders held roughly 13.86% of Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc.’s shares. Comparatively, insiders own roughly 16.82% of Principal Real Estate Income Fund’s shares.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc.	-1.18%	0.81%	6.52%	0.93%	2.09%	3.02%
Principal Real Estate Income Fund	1.19%	2.41%	5.3%	-3.19%	7.91%	8.1%

For the past year Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc. has weaker performance than Principal Real Estate Income Fund

Summary

Eagle Capital Growth Fund Inc. beats Principal Real Estate Income Fund on 5 of the 6 factors.