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FFA vs KKR
Side-by-side comparison of First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund (FFA) and KKR & Co. Inc. (KKR): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both FFA and KKR operate in Investment Managers (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
- KKR is the larger of the two at $90.63B, about 228.5x FFA ($396.7M).
- Over the past year, FFA is up 9.3% and KKR is down 30.1% - FFA leads by 39.4 points.
- KKR has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for FFA).
- KKR has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 0 for FFA).
First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund
First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by First Trust Advisors L.P. The fund is co-managed by Chartwell Investment Partners, L.P. It invests in public equity markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across the diversified sectors. It invests in stocks of companies across diversified market capitalizations. The fund also writes covered call options. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P 500 Index. The fund was formerly known as First Trust/Fiduciary Asset Management Covered Call Fund. First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund was formed on August 26, 2004 and is domiciled in the United States.
KKR & Co. Inc.
KKR & Co. Inc. is a private equity and real estate investment firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. It specializes in acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, credit special situations, growth equity, mature, mezzanine, distressed, turnaround, lower middle market and middle market investments. The firm considers investments in all industries with a focus on software, security, semiconductors, consumer electronics, internet of things (iot), internet, information services, information technology infrastructure, financial technology, network and cyber security architecture, engineering and operations, content, technology and hardware, energy and infrastructure, real estate, services industry with a focus on business services, intelligence, industry-leading franchises and companies in natural resource, containers and packaging, agriculture, airports, ports, forestry, electric utilities, textiles, apparel and luxury goods, household durables, digital media, insurance, brokerage houses, non-durable goods distribution, supermarket retailing, grocery stores, food, beverage, and tobacco, hospitals, entertainment venues and production companies, publishing, printing services, capital goods, financial services, specialized finance, pipelines, and renewable energy. In energy and infrastructure, it focuses on the upstream oil and gas and equipment, minerals and royalties and services verticals. In real estate, the firm seeks to invest in private and public real estate securities including property-level equity, debt and special situations transactions and businesses with significant real estate holdings, and oil and natural gas properties. The firm also invests in asset services sector that encompasses a broad array of B2B, B2C and B2G services verticals including asset-based, transport, logistics, leisure/hospitality, resource and utility support, infra-like, mission-critical, and environmental services. Within Americas, the firm prefers to invest in consumer products; chemicals, metals and mining; energy and natural resources; financial services; healthcare; industrials; media and communications; retail; and technology. Within Europe, the firm invests in consumer and retail; energy; financial services; health care; industrials and chemicals; media and digital; and telecom and technologies. Within Asia, it invests in consumer products; energy and resources; financial services; healthcare; industrials; logistics; media and telecom; retail; real estate; and technology. It also seeks to make impact investments focused on identifying and investing behind businesses with positive social or environmental impact. The firm seeks to invest in mid to high-end residential developments, but can invest in other projects throughout Mainland China through outright ownership, joint ventures, and merger. It invests globally with a focus on Australia, emerging and developed Asia, Middle East and Africa, Nordic, Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Caribbean, Mexico, South America, North America, Brazil, Latin America, Korea with a focus on South Korea, and United States of America. In the United States and Europe, the firm focuses on buyouts of large, publicly traded companies. It seeks to invest $30 million to $717 million in companies with enterprise values between $500 million to $2389 million. The firm prefers to invest in a range of debt and public equity investing and may co-invest. It seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies and a controlling ownership of a company or a strategic minority positions. The firm may acquire majority and minority equity interests, particularly when making private equity investments in Asia or sponsoring investments as part of a large investor consortium. The firm typically holds its investment for a period of five to seven years and more and exits through initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and sales to strategic buyers. KKR & Co. Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices across North America, Europe, Australia, Sweden and Asia.
Latest FFA
- First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund Issues Notice Regarding June 2026 Distribution
- First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund Declares its Quarterly Distribution of $0.3875 Per Share
- First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund Issues Notice Regarding March 2026 Distribution
- SEC Form N-CEN filed by First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund
- SEC Form N-CSR filed by First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund
- First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund Declares its Quarterly Distribution of $0.3875 Per Share
- SEC Form DEF 14A filed by First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund
- New insider Driscoll Thomas J. claimed no ownership of stock in the company (SEC Form 3)
- First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund Issues Notice Regarding December 2025 Distribution
- First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund Declares its Quarterly Distribution of $0.3875 Per Share
Latest KKR
- Thomson Reuters and KKR Announce Joint Venture for Thomson Reuters Global Print Business
- Spero Therapeutics Announces $105 Million Non-Recourse Non-Dilutive Financing Backed by a Portion of Utebzi Milestones & Royalties
- KKR Leads A$400 Million Financing Solution for Ampol
- FSK Announces Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule for Second Quarter 2026
- KKR Launches Allyntra, an Engineered Solutions Platform for Medical Technology and Precision Industries
- Arctos Announces Final Close of Arctos Keystone Partners Fund I at $6.2 Billion
- Large owner Kkr Alternative Assets Llc acquired $2,422,339 worth of Class I Common Stock (105,871 units at $22.88) (SEC Form 4)
- KKR & Co. Inc. to Announce Second Quarter 2026 Results
- BridgeBio Raises $1 Billion in Preferred Equity to Accelerate Present and Upcoming Launches
- SK and KKR Launch Korea's Largest Renewable Energy Platform