NIE vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, VFL, THW, AVK, AFB, AFT, and AIF
Should you be buying Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund 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 National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (THW), Advent Convertible and Income Fund (AVK), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (AFT), and Apollo Tactical Income Fund (AIF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund (NYSE:NIE) and Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund received 23 more outperform votes than Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.89% of users gave Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.
Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.7%.
In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund. Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 equaled Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund beats Virtus Equity & Convertible Income Fund on 3 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.
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