FT vs GBIO Comparison

Franklin Universal Trust is a closed-end management investment company focused on providing high current income while preserving capital. Its secondary objective is to achieve income growth through dividend increases and capital appreciation. The fund invests in two asset classes: high-yield bonds and utility stocks. It applies fundamental research to build a diversified high-yield bond portfolio and targets utility companies with attractive dividend yields and a history of increasing dividends.

Generation Bio Co is a genetics medicine company focused on creating gene therapies to provide durable and redosable treatments for patients suffering from rare and untreated diseases. The company focuses on liver and retina-related diseases. It is developing two distinct and complementary platforms that It believes will enable differentiated therapeutic applications. Its first platform is a potent, selective ctLNP delivery system for nucleic acids, which is designed to avoid off-target clearance by the liver and spleen, enabling ctLNPs to persist in systemic circulation and allowing for selective and potent ligand-driven targeting to specific tissues and cell types. Its second platform is its novel iqDNA, which is an optimized variant of its ceDNA.