FT vs. VFL, AWF, ASA, DMF, DSM, LEO, EVN, INSI, VPV, and JOF
Should you be buying Franklin Universal Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Franklin Universal Trust 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 Municipal Bond Fund (DSM), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), Insight Select Income Fund (INSI), Invesco Pennsylvania Value Municipal Income Trust (VPV), and Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund (JOF). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) and Franklin Universal Trust (NYSE:FT) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk and valuation.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Universal Trust has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Franklin Universal Trust received 80 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Franklin Universal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.51 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, Franklin Universal Trust had 2 more articles in the media than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Franklin Universal Trust and 1 mentions for abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. Franklin Universal Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.67 indicating that abrdn National Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Franklin Universal Trust beats abrdn National Municipal Income Fund on 4 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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