WEA vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, THW, AVK, AFB, FINS, AFT, and AIF
Should you be buying Western Asset Premier Bond Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Asset Premier Bond Fund include abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend (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 Premier Bond Fund (NYSE:WEA) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Western Asset Premier Bond Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.82 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Western Asset Premier Bond Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Western Asset Premier Bond Fund received 6 more outperform votes than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.94% of users gave Western Asset Premier Bond 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 had 2 more articles in the media than Western Asset Premier Bond Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for Western Asset Premier Bond Fund. Western Asset Premier Bond Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's score of 0.60 indicating that Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Western Asset Premier Bond Fund beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 4 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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