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abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL) Competitors

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$9.74 +0.02 (+0.21%)
As of 06/12/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

VFL vs. MYD, NQP, MUA, PPT, DOGZ, RFI, RCS, PMO, PMM, and OIA

Should you be buying abrdn National Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn National Municipal Income Fund include BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Putnam Premier Income Trust (PPT), Dogness (International) (DOGZ), Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund (RFI), PIMCO Strategic Income Fund (RCS), Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust (PMO), Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (PMM), and Invesco Municipal Income Opportunities Trust (OIA). These companies are all part of the "misc." industry.

abrdn National Municipal Income Fund vs. Its Competitors

abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) and BlackRock MuniYield Fund (NYSE:MYD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
abrdn National Municipal Income FundN/A N/A N/A
BlackRock MuniYield Fund N/A N/A N/A

abrdn National Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.51 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. BlackRock MuniYield Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%.

In the previous week, abrdn National Municipal Income Fund had 2 more articles in the media than BlackRock MuniYield Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for abrdn National Municipal Income Fund and 1 mentions for BlackRock MuniYield Fund. BlackRock MuniYield Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.86 indicating that BlackRock MuniYield Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund Positive
BlackRock MuniYield Fund Positive

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund$36.45M3.28N/AN/AN/A
BlackRock MuniYield Fund$8.74M53.74N/AN/AN/A

33.8% of BlackRock MuniYield Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of abrdn National Municipal Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BlackRock MuniYield Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

BlackRock MuniYield Fund received 160 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
abrdn National Municipal Income FundN/AN/A
BlackRock MuniYield FundOutperform Votes
160
72.40%
Underperform Votes
61
27.60%

abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock MuniYield Fund has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

BlackRock MuniYield Fund beats abrdn National Municipal Income Fund on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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VFL vs. The Competition

Metricabrdn National Municipal Income FundInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$119.59M$7.14B$11.72B$19.87B
Dividend Yield3.99%6.78%5.66%3.83%
P/E RatioN/A3.5923.0535.60
Price / Sales3.2824.7226.8043.81
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6017.51
Price / BookN/A0.922.894.85
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.25%0.77%0.67%0.90%
1 Month Performance-1.91%1.63%1.15%2.35%
1 Year Performance-6.70%2.88%540.95%10.79%

abrdn National Municipal Income Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
VFL
abrdn National Municipal Income Fund
N/A$9.74
+0.2%
N/A-5.9%$119.59M$36.45M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓
MYD
BlackRock MuniYield Fund
N/A$9.97
+0.5%
N/A-6.7%$464.48M$8.74M0.00147,000Positive News
Short Interest ↓
NQP
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund
N/A$11.03
-0.5%
N/A-8.1%$410.37M$32.93M0.00147,000
MUA
BlackRock MuniAssets Fund
N/A$10.20
+0.5%
N/A-8.8%$394.33M$35.87M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
PPT
Putnam Premier Income Trust
N/A$3.68
+0.4%
N/A+5.1%$354.27M$22.60M0.00N/APositive News
Dividend Announcement
DOGZ
Dogness (International)
0.4911 of 5 stars
$26.13
-1.2%
N/A+83.8%$330.24M$20.26M0.00320Short Interest ↑
RFI
Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund
N/A$12.05
+0.3%
N/A+6.7%$321.00M$17.51M0.00N/APositive News
Ex-Dividend
Short Interest ↓
RCS
PIMCO Strategic Income Fund
N/A$6.82
+0.6%
N/A+11.2%$318.18M$28.89M0.00N/ANegative News
PMO
Putnam Municipal Opportunities Trust
N/A$9.78
+0.4%
N/A-3.1%$310.98M$69.50M0.00801Positive News
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓
PMM
Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust
N/A$5.86
+0.3%
N/A-3.3%$272.27M$67.33M0.00N/APositive News
OIA
Invesco Municipal Income Opportunities Trust
N/A$5.69
+0.5%
N/A-9.7%$271.03M$17.92M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑

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