FRA vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, VFL, THW, AVK, AFB, FINS, and AFT
Should you be buying BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies 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 National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), 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), and Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (AFT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) and BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund (NYSE:FRA) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years. BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund received 40 more outperform votes than BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.02% of users gave BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund both had 2 articles in the media. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.33 beat BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund's score of 0.32 indicating that BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 5 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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