Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund (EMD) Competitors

Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund (NYSE:EMD) and BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (NYSE:DHF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, risk and profitability.

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, EMD or DHF?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund	$62.71M	4.50	N/A	N/A	N/A
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund	$33.52M	5.54	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is EMD or DHF more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has more volatility and risk, EMD or DHF?

Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund has a beta of 0.9, suggesting that its share price is 10% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals believe in EMD or DHF?

33.0% of Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.2% of BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.6% of BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is EMD or DHF a better dividend stock?

Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.21 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor EMD or DHF?

BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund received 102 more outperform votes than Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.34% of users gave BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies 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%
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund	Outperform Votes 147 69.34%	Underperform Votes 65 30.66%

Does the media favor EMD or DHF?

In the previous week, Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund had 3 more articles in the media than BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund and 0 mentions for BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund. BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.93 beat Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund's score of 1.19 indicating that BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund	Positive
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund	Very Positive

Summary

BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund beats Western Asset Emerging Markets Debt Fund on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.