First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (FCT) Competitors

First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (NYSE:FCT) and Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability and earnings.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FCT or AGD?

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund received 40 more outperform votes than First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II	Outperform Votes 68 66.67%	Underperform Votes 34 33.33%
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Outperform Votes 108 62.79%	Underperform Votes 64 37.21%

Is FCT or AGD a better dividend stock?

First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.8%. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%.

Does the media favor FCT or AGD?

In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 2 more articles in the media than First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II's score of -1.00 indicating that Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II	Negative
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Positive

Which has better valuation & earnings, FCT or AGD?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II	$24.71M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	$56.61M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is FCT or AGD more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II	N/A	N/A	N/A
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund beats First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II on 4 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.