John Hancock Preferred Income Fund (HPI) Competitors

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) and John Hancock Preferred Income Fund (NYSE:HPI) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends and valuation.

Which has better earnings and valuation, AGD or HPI?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	$17.85M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund	$61.75M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is AGD or HPI a better dividend stock?

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.3%. John Hancock Preferred Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.48 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%.

Does the media favor AGD or HPI?

In the previous week, John Hancock Preferred Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for John Hancock Preferred Income Fund and 0 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled John Hancock Preferred Income Fund'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Neutral
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund	Neutral

Is AGD or HPI more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer AGD or HPI?

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund received 3 more outperform votes than John Hancock Preferred Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.63% of users gave John Hancock Preferred Income Fund an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Outperform Votes 108 62.79%	Underperform Votes 64 37.21%
John Hancock Preferred Income Fund	Outperform Votes 105 68.63%	Underperform Votes 48 31.37%

Summary

John Hancock Preferred Income Fund beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 3 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.