LEO vs. VFL, AWF, ASA, DMF, DSM, EVN, FT, INSI, VPV, and JOF
Should you be buying BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals 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), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), Franklin Universal Trust (FT), 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.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (NYSE:LEO) and abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals received 139 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, abrdn National Municipal Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for abrdn National Municipal Income Fund and 0 mentions for BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals' score of 0.00 indicating that abrdn National Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund beats BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals on 4 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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