DSM vs. VFL, AWF, ASA, DMF, LEO, EVN, FT, VPV, JOF, and JHS
Should you be buying BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund include abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), BNY Mellon Municipal Income (DMF), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), Franklin Universal Trust (FT), Invesco Pennsylvania Value Municipal Income Trust (VPV), Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund (JOF), and John Hancock Income Securities Trust (JHS). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund (NYSE:DSM) and abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) are both finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, profitability, earnings, valuation and media sentiment.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its share price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%.
In the previous week, BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund and 0 mentions for abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund received 160 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund beats abrdn National Municipal Income Fund on 5 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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