AFT vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, VFL, THW, AVK, AFB, FINS, and AIF
Should you be buying Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund include Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (AGD), abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund (AWP), Abrdn Healthcare Opportunities Fund (THQ), Abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund (ACP), abrdn National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (THW), Advent Convertible and Income Fund (AVK), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), Angel Oak Financial Strategies Income Term Trust (FINS), and Apollo Tactical Income Fund (AIF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) and Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (NYSE:AFT) 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.
Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund received 19 more outperform votes than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.14% of users gave Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund. Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.41 beat Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's score of -0.50 indicating that Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund has increased its dividend for 2 consecutive years. Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Summary
Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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