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First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (FCT) Competitors

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$10.20
-0.11 (-1.07%)
(As of 11/4/2024 ET)

FCT vs. AGD, AWP, THW, AVK, AWF, AFB, ARDC, BFZ, BHK, and HYT

Should you be buying First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II include Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (AGD), abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund (AWP), Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (THW), Advent Convertible and Income Fund (AVK), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund (ARDC), BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust (BFZ), BlackRock Core Bond Trust (BHK), and BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund (HYT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II vs.

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) and First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II (NYSE:FCT) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and media sentiment.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund$17.85MN/AN/AN/AN/A
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II$32.83MN/AN/AN/AN/A

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund received 40 more outperform votes than First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.67% of users gave First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend FundOutperform Votes
108
62.79%
Underperform Votes
64
37.21%
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund IIOutperform Votes
68
66.67%
Underperform Votes
34
33.33%

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend FundN/A N/A N/A
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II N/A N/A N/A

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.4%.

In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund both had 1 articles in the media. First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's score of -0.45 indicating that First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
N/A

Summary

First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 4 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.

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FCT vs. The Competition

MetricFirst Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund IIAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorNYSE Exchange
Market CapN/A$772.71M$3.15B$19.29B
Dividend Yield0.06%13.42%4.61%3.57%
P/E RatioN/A750.52431.2741.88
Price / SalesN/A13,655.112,979.4017.83
Price / CashN/A53.4448.0020.54
Price / BookN/A1.692.275.28
Net IncomeN/A$57.11M$394.92M$982.74M
7 Day Performance-1.36%0.02%6.22%1.84%
1 Month Performance-1.07%-0.86%0.01%1.58%
1 Year Performance2.52%11.97%16.32%23.51%

First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FCT
First Trust Senior Floating Rate Income Fund II
N/A$10.20
-1.1%
N/A+3.7%$0.00$32.83M0.00N/AEx-Dividend
Positive News
AGD
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund
N/A$10.28
-0.7%
N/A+15.7%$0.00$17.85M0.00N/ANews Coverage
AWP
abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund
N/A$4.39
-0.2%
N/A+12.4%$0.00$-9,264,203.000.00N/APositive News
THW
Abrdn World Healthcare Fund
N/A$12.51
-0.5%
N/A+13.1%$0.00$50.22M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
AVK
Advent Convertible and Income Fund
N/A$11.15
-0.6%
N/A+9.2%$0.00$40.96M0.00N/ADividend Increase
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$10.87
-0.3%
N/A+13.1%$0.00$126.10M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
AFB
AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund
N/A$11.12
-1.0%
N/A+18.1%$0.00$5.80M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
ARDC
Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund
N/A$15.02
-0.7%
N/A+20.5%$0.00$56.16M0.00N/APositive News
BFZ
BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust
N/A$11.78
-0.7%
N/A+12.4%$0.00$12.86M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
Negative News
BHK
BlackRock Core Bond Trust
N/A$11.37
-0.8%
N/A+18.7%$0.00$26.22M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
HYT
BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund
N/A$9.85
-0.2%
N/A+11.7%$0.00$164.69M0.00N/ADividend Announcement

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