Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund (TPZ) Competitors

Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund (NYSE:EMD) and Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund (NYSE:TPZ) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, EMD or TPZ?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund	$62.71M	4.48	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund	$24.21M	6.54	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is EMD or TPZ a better dividend stock?

Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.05 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.99 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%.

Does the media refer more to EMD or TPZ?

In the previous week, Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund and Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund both had 1 articles in the media. Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.72 beat Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund's score of 1.32 indicating that Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Is EMD or TPZ more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in EMD or TPZ?

Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund received 104 more outperform votes than Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.40% of users gave Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund an outperform vote while only 67.16% of users gave Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund	Outperform Votes 45 67.16%	Underperform Votes 22 32.84%
Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund	Outperform Votes 149 73.40%	Underperform Votes 54 26.60%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in EMD or TPZ?

33.0% of Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund beats Tortoise Power and Energy Infrastructure Fund on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.