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 investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in 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 company will outperform the market over the long term.

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 MarketBeat Community believe in 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 higher 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

Does the media prefer PFO or AGD?

In the previous week, Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund and 0 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund. Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

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 5.9%. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%.

Summary

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund and Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund tied by winning 3 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.