Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (AFT) Competitors

abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend (NYSE:AGD) and Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (NYSE:AFT) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Does the media favor AGD or AFT?

In the previous week, Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund and 2 mentions for abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend. Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend's score of 0.33 indicating that abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Is AGD or AFT more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	N/A	N/A	N/A
Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, AGD or AFT?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	$9.11M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund	$38.20M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community favor AGD or AFT?

Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund received 19 more outperform votes than abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.14% of users gave Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	Outperform Votes 108 62.79%	Underperform Votes 64 37.21%
Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund	Outperform Votes 127 64.14%	Underperform Votes 71 35.86%

Is AGD or AFT a better dividend stock?

abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Do analysts rate AGD or AFT?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Summary

Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund beats abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend on 6 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.