ASA vs. VFL, AWF, DSM, LEO, EVN, FT, INSI, VPV, JOF, and JHS
Should you be buying ASA Gold and Precious Metals stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of ASA Gold and Precious Metals include abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund (DSM), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), Franklin Universal Trust (FT), Insight Select Income Fund (INSI), Invesco Pennsylvania Value Municipal Income Trust (VPV), Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund (JOF), and John Hancock Income Securities Trust (JHS). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) and ASA Gold and Precious Metals (NYSE:ASA) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking and dividends.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. ASA Gold and Precious Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.2%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and ASA Gold and Precious Metals has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, ASA Gold and Precious Metals had 2 more articles in the media than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for ASA Gold and Precious Metals and 1 mentions for abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat ASA Gold and Precious Metals' score of 0.00 indicating that ASA Gold and Precious Metals is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ASA Gold and Precious Metals has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its stock price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500.
ASA Gold and Precious Metals received 86 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
ASA Gold and Precious Metals beats abrdn National Municipal Income Fund on 4 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.
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