EFT vs. AOD, AGD, ACP, AFB, AIF, ARDC, HYT, BTZ, FRA, and BGT
Should you be buying Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust include Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (AOD), Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (AGD), Abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund (ACP), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), Apollo Tactical Income Fund (AIF), Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund (ARDC), BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund (HYT), BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust (BTZ), BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund (FRA), and BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (BGT). These companies are all part of the "investment trusts & mutual funds" industry.
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust vs.
Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AOD) and Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust (NYSE:EFT) are both miscellaneous companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings and dividends.
Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.69 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust received 158 more outperform votes than Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.42% of users gave Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote while only 61.94% of users gave Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust and 0 mentions for Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund. Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Eaton Vance Floating-Rate Income Trust beats Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund on 6 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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