RIV vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, THW, AVK, AWF, AFB, FINS, and AFT
Should you be buying RiverNorth Opportunities Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RiverNorth Opportunities Fund include abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend (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 Global High Income Fund (AWF), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), Angel Oak Financial Strategies Income Term Trust (FINS), and Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (AFT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend (NYSE:AGD) and RiverNorth Opportunities Fund (NYSE:RIV) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership and analyst recommendations.
abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. RiverNorth Opportunities Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.53 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.5%. RiverNorth Opportunities Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years. RiverNorth Opportunities Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend had 2 more articles in the media than RiverNorth Opportunities Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend and 0 mentions for RiverNorth Opportunities Fund. RiverNorth Opportunities Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend's score of 0.58 indicating that abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend is being referred to more favorably in the media.
RiverNorth Opportunities Fund received 22 more outperform votes than abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.04% of users gave RiverNorth Opportunities Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend an outperform vote.
Summary
RiverNorth Opportunities Fund beats abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend on 4 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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