Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc. (NYSEAMERICAN:AEF) and First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund (NYSE:FIV) compete with each other in the Asset Management sector. We will analyze and contrast their dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc.	16.86M	26.87	97.01M	-0.90	0.00
First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund	N/A	0.00	N/A	0.00	0.00

Table 1 demonstrates Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc. and First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 provides the return on assets, return on equity and net margins of the two firms.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc.	-575.39%	0%	0%
First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund	0.00%	0%	0%

Dividends

Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc. dividend pay is $0.61 per share with 8.05% dividend yield annually. No dividend is paid out by First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund

Institutional and Insider Ownership

Institutional investors owned 55.59% of Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc. shares and 3.91% of First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund shares. Insiders owned 0.01% of Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc. shares. Competitively, insiders own roughly 63.79% of First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund’s shares.

Performance

In this table we show the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc.	-1.23%	1.4%	10.2%	6.55%	-6.51%	14.02%
First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund	-0.34%	-0.34%	0.29%	-4.51%	-4.92%	7.63%

For the past year Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc. was more bullish than First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund.

Summary

Aberdeen Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund Inc. beats on 4 of the 7 factors First Trust Senior Floating Rate 2022 Target Term Fund.