Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO) Competitors

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PFO) and Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

Is PFO or AGD more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the media favor PFO or AGD?

In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 2 more articles in the media than Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 0 mentions for Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.12 beat Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	Neutral
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer PFO or AGD?

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund received 108 more outperform votes than Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	Outperform Votes 108 62.79%	Underperform Votes 64 37.21%

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, PFO or AGD?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	$24.27M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund	$56.61M	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of PFO or AGD?

12.9% of Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 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 PFO or AGD a better dividend stock?

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.7%.

Summary

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund beats Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund on 5 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.