HIX vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, THW, AVK, AFB, AFT, AIF, and ARDC
Should you be buying Western Asset High Income Fund II stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Asset High Income Fund II include Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (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), Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (AFT), Apollo Tactical Income Fund (AIF), and Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund (ARDC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Western Asset High Income Fund II (NYSE:HIX) and abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend (NYSE:AGD) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Western Asset High Income Fund II received 20 more outperform votes than abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 71.91% of users gave Western Asset High Income Fund II an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Western Asset High Income Fund II and Western Asset High Income Fund II both had 1 articles in the media. Western Asset High Income Fund II's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend's score of -1.00 indicating that Western Asset High Income Fund II is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Western Asset High Income Fund II pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%.
Summary
Western Asset High Income Fund II beats abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend on 4 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.
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