Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund (PFD) Competitors

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund (NYSE:PFD) and Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AOD) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, risk, dividends and valuation.

Is PFD or AOD a better dividend stock?

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%.

Is PFD or AOD more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, PFD or AOD?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund	$28.93M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund	$94.38M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media refer more to PFD or AOD?

In the previous week, Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund had 3 more articles in the media than Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund and 0 mentions for Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund. Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund	Neutral
Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund	Neutral

Summary

Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund beats Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Fund on 2 of the 3 factors compared between the two stocks.