DHF vs. EMD, PUYI, RMGC, AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, THW, AVK, and AFB
Should you be buying BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund include Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund (EMD), Highest Performances (PUYI), RMG Acquisition Corp. III (RMGC), Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (AGD), abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund (AWP), Abrdn Healthcare Opportunities Fund (THQ), Abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund (ACP), Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (THW), Advent Convertible and Income Fund (AVK), and AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB). These companies are all part of the "financial services" sector.
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (NYSE:DHF) and Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund (NYSE:EMD) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings and dividends.
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.97 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%.
36.2% of BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.0% of Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 16.6% of BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund has a beta of 0.85, indicating that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund received 102 more outperform votes than Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.34% of users gave BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund an outperform vote while only 67.16% of users gave Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund had 2 more articles in the media than BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund and 1 mentions for BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund. BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.05 beat Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund's score of -0.33 indicating that BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund beats Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.
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