ARDC vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, THW, AVK, AFB, FINS, AFT, and AIF
Should you be buying Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation 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 Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund (NYSE:ARDC) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 2 more articles in the media than Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund. Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.61 beat Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's score of 0.50 indicating that Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund received 9 more outperform votes than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.42% of users gave Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.
Summary
Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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