Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund (HIO) Competitors

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) and Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:HIO) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, earnings and risk.

Is AGD or HIO a better dividend stock?

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Which has better valuation and earnings, AGD or HIO?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	$9.11M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund	$28.71M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is AGD or HIO more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts rate AGD or HIO?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the media refer more to AGD or HIO?

In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 4 more articles in the media than Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund's score of 0.61 indicating that Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Positive
Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer AGD or HIO?

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund received 32 more outperform votes than Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.47% of users gave Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Outperform Votes 108 62.79%	Underperform Votes 64 37.21%
Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund	Outperform Votes 76 68.47%	Underperform Votes 35 31.53%

Summary

Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.