DSM vs. VFL, AWF, ASA, DMF, LEO, EVN, FT, INSI, VPV, and JOF
Should you be buying BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund 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 Municipals (LEO), 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.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) and BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund (NYSE:DSM) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability, media sentiment and community ranking.
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 Municipal Bond Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, abrdn National Municipal Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for abrdn National Municipal Income Fund and 0 mentions for BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund. BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that abrdn National Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund has a beta of 0.56, suggesting that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund received 160 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund beats BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund on 5 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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