Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund (HYI) Competitors

Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund (NYSE:HYI) and abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend (NYSE:AGD) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Is HYI or AGD a better dividend stock?

Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer HYI or AGD?

Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund received 28 more outperform votes than abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.85% of users gave Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund	Outperform Votes 136 63.85%	Underperform Votes 77 36.15%
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	Outperform Votes 108 62.79%	Underperform Votes 64 37.21%

Do analysts prefer HYI or AGD?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Is HYI or AGD more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has better valuation & earnings, HYI or AGD?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund	-$6.78M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	$9.11M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media prefer HYI or AGD?

In the previous week, abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend had 2 more articles in the media than Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend and 1 mentions for Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund. abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund	Negative
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend	Positive

Summary

Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund and abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend tied by winning 3 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.