John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III (HPS) Competitors

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) and John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III (NYSE:HPS) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.

Is AGD or HPS a better dividend stock?

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.7%. John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III pays an annual dividend of $1.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, AGD or HPS?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	$56.61M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III	$54.64M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AGD or HPS?

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III received 173 more outperform votes than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 82.16% of users gave John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Outperform Votes 108 62.79%	Underperform Votes 64 37.21%
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III	Outperform Votes 281 82.16%	Underperform Votes 61 17.84%

Is AGD or HPS more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media refer more to AGD or HPS?

In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 3 more articles in the media than John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 0 mentions for John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.74 beat John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III's score of 0.00 indicating that Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Positive
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III	Neutral

Summary

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund beats John Hancock Preferred Income Fund III on 4 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.