EHI vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, THW, AVK, AFB, FINS, AFT, and AIF
Should you be buying Western Asset Global High Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Asset Global High Income Fund include 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), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), Angel Oak Financial Strategies Income Term Trust (FINS), Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (AFT), and Apollo Tactical Income Fund (AIF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) and Western Asset Global High Income Fund (NYSE:EHI) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Western Asset Global High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.81 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.5%. Western Asset Global High Income Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Western Asset Global High Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Western Asset Global High Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Western Asset Global High Income Fund and 0 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat Western Asset Global High Income Fund's score of 0.41 indicating that Western Asset Global High Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund received 4 more outperform votes than Western Asset Global High Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.97% of users gave Western Asset Global High Income Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.
Summary
Western Asset Global High Income Fund beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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