Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund (AEF) Competitors

Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund (NYSE:AEF) and Abrdn Healthcare Investors (NYSE:HQH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk, institutional ownership and earnings.

Is AEF or HQH a better dividend stock?

Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.45 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Abrdn Healthcare Investors pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 14.6%.

Which has stronger earnings & valuation, AEF or HQH?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund	$20.73M	11.34	N/A	N/A	N/A
Abrdn Healthcare Investors	$186.46M	4.58	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of AEF or HQH?

73.9% of Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.6% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 16.7% of Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more volatility & risk, AEF or HQH?

Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Abrdn Healthcare Investors has a beta of 0.75, suggesting that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to AEF or HQH?

In the previous week, Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund had 4 more articles in the media than Abrdn Healthcare Investors. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund and 0 mentions for Abrdn Healthcare Investors. Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Abrdn Healthcare Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund	Positive
Abrdn Healthcare Investors	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in AEF or HQH?

Abrdn Healthcare Investors received 123 more outperform votes than Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund	N/A	N/A
Abrdn Healthcare Investors	Outperform Votes 123 65.08%	Underperform Votes 66 34.92%

Is AEF or HQH more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Abrdn Healthcare Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary

Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund beats Abrdn Healthcare Investors on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.