VFL vs. AWF, ASA, DMF, DSM, LEO, EVN, FT, JOF, JHS, and MXE
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 AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), BNY Mellon Municipal Income (DMF), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipal Bond Fund (DSM), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), Franklin Universal Trust (FT), Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund (JOF), John Hancock Income Securities Trust (JHS), and Mexico Equity & Income Fund (MXE). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (NYSE:AWF) and abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:VFL) are both finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, profitability, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, valuation, risk and institutional ownership.
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund has a beta of 0.79, meaning that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.55, meaning that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500.
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.79 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund received 126 more outperform votes than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund had 4 more articles in the media than abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund and 0 mentions for abrdn National Municipal Income Fund. abrdn National Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund beats abrdn National Municipal Income Fund on 5 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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