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Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF) Competitors

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$9.54 -0.13 (-1.34%)
Closing price 04/3/2025 03:56 PM Eastern
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TDF vs. PFLT, AWF, CGBD, HQH, PHK, BTO, NXP, ASA, PDT, and CCAP

Should you be buying Templeton Dragon Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Templeton Dragon Fund include PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (PDT), and Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Templeton Dragon Fund vs.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NASDAQ:PFLT) and Templeton Dragon Fund (NYSE:TDF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, dividends, risk, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability and analyst recommendations.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Templeton Dragon Fund.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital$114.06M8.53$91.84M$1.407.90
Templeton Dragon Fund$27.67M8.74N/AN/AN/A

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays an annual dividend of $1.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.1%. Templeton Dragon Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital pays out 87.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital presently has a consensus target price of $12.00, suggesting a potential upside of 8.45%. Given PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is more favorable than Templeton Dragon Fund.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.67
Templeton Dragon Fund
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a beta of 1.67, indicating that its share price is 67% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Templeton Dragon Fund has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its share price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital received 116 more outperform votes than Templeton Dragon Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.54% of users gave Templeton Dragon Fund an outperform vote while only 49.51% of users gave PennantPark Floating Rate Capital an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PennantPark Floating Rate CapitalOutperform Votes
253
49.51%
Underperform Votes
258
50.49%
Templeton Dragon FundOutperform Votes
137
69.54%
Underperform Votes
60
30.46%

19.8% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.2% of Templeton Dragon Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital has a net margin of 45.36% compared to Templeton Dragon Fund's net margin of 0.00%. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's return on equity of 10.76% beat Templeton Dragon Fund's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital45.36% 10.76% 4.65%
Templeton Dragon Fund N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital both had 4 articles in the media. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.53 beat Templeton Dragon Fund's score of 0.39 indicating that PennantPark Floating Rate Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Templeton Dragon Fund
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Summary

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital beats Templeton Dragon Fund on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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TDF vs. The Competition

MetricTempleton Dragon FundInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$241.87M$7.61B$11.03B$18.94B
Dividend Yield2.20%6.76%5.42%3.78%
P/E RatioN/A3.6821.9931.59
Price / Sales8.7415.8525.2525.45
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.54
Price / BookN/A0.912.664.36
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-2.00%-0.90%-2.53%-3.87%
1 Month Performance1.01%-2.27%496.68%-4.82%
1 Year Performance19.40%1.34%533.49%0.29%

Templeton Dragon Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TDF
Templeton Dragon Fund
N/A$9.54
-1.3%
N/A+19.5%$241.87M$27.67M0.00147,000
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
1.2084 of 5 stars
$11.16
-1.1%
$12.00
+7.6%
-1.6%$981.15M$114.06M7.97658Dividend Announcement
Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$10.75
+0.2%
N/A-0.4%$926.54M$152.17M0.00N/AHigh Trading Volume
CGBD
Carlyle Secured Lending
1.3027 of 5 stars
$16.18
-3.2%
$17.00
+5.1%
-1.9%$824.48M$99.28M9.04N/APositive News
High Trading Volume
HQH
Abrdn Healthcare Investors
N/A$16.22
-1.7%
N/A-3.8%$820.88M$186.46M0.00147,000News Coverage
PHK
PIMCO High Income Fund
N/A$4.87
-0.1%
N/A-1.7%$710.91M$99.89M0.00147,000Dividend Announcement
News Coverage
Positive News
BTO
John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund
N/A$34.11
+0.5%
N/A+13.2%$673.40M$142.41M0.002,719Gap Down
NXP
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio
N/A$14.33
-0.1%
N/A+0.0%$670.86M$75.19M0.0040,400Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
ASA
ASA Gold and Precious Metals
N/A$29.99
-0.1%
N/A+69.0%$645.44M$118.94M0.001,100Dividend Increase
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
Gap Down
High Trading Volume
PDT
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund
N/A$13.05
+0.4%
N/A+10.3%$641.72M$198.30M0.00147,000Dividend Announcement
Positive News
CCAP
Crescent Capital BDC
2.2865 of 5 stars
$17.12
-2.3%
$19.20
+12.1%
-1.7%$634.50M$83.50M8.60N/ADividend Announcement
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