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BlackRock Health Sciences Trust (BME) Competitors

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$37.40 -0.24 (-0.62%)
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BME vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, THW, AVK, AFB, ARDC, BFZ, BHK, and HYT

Should you be buying BlackRock Health Sciences Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Health Sciences Trust include Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (AGD), abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund (AWP), Abrdn Healthcare Opportunities Fund (THQ), Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (THW), Advent Convertible and Income Fund (AVK), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund (ARDC), BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust (BFZ), BlackRock Core Bond Trust (BHK), and BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund (HYT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

BlackRock Health Sciences Trust vs.

BlackRock Health Sciences Trust (NYSE:BME) and Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking and dividends.

BlackRock Health Sciences Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%.

In the previous week, BlackRock Health Sciences Trust and BlackRock Health Sciences Trust both had 1 articles in the media. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat BlackRock Health Sciences Trust's score of -1.00 indicating that Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
BlackRock Health Sciences Trust Negative
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund Positive

BlackRock Health Sciences Trust received 49 more outperform votes than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.15% of users gave BlackRock Health Sciences Trust an outperform vote while only 62.79% of users gave Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BlackRock Health Sciences TrustOutperform Votes
157
65.15%
Underperform Votes
84
34.85%
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend FundOutperform Votes
108
62.79%
Underperform Votes
64
37.21%

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BlackRock Health Sciences Trust$24.07MN/AN/AN/AN/A
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund$56.61MN/AN/AN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BlackRock Health Sciences TrustN/A N/A N/A
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund N/A N/A N/A

Summary

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund beats BlackRock Health Sciences Trust on 3 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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BME vs. The Competition

MetricBlackRock Health Sciences TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorNYSE Exchange
Market CapN/A$1.15B$3.85B$19.02B
Dividend Yield0.06%4.46%4.21%4.03%
P/E RatioN/A21.8113.0533.12
Price / SalesN/A2,287.541,692.3228.04
Price / CashN/A61.4750.4917.52
Price / BookN/A1.143.424.51
Net IncomeN/A$262.88M$1.25B$1.02B
7 Day Performance2.38%1.59%1.44%1.38%
1 Month Performance-2.44%11.01%13.35%-1.99%
1 Year Performance-5.26%2.82%13.16%5.28%

BlackRock Health Sciences Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BME
BlackRock Health Sciences Trust
N/A$37.41
-0.6%
N/A-4.0%$0.00$24.07M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News
AGD
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund
N/A$9.40
-1.3%
N/A+7.7%$0.00$56.61M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
Positive News
High Trading Volume
AWP
abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund
N/A$3.70
-2.1%
N/A+5.2%$0.00$95.16M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
News Coverage
THQ
Abrdn Healthcare Opportunities Fund
N/A$18.51
-2.1%
N/A-1.0%$0.00$191.10M0.001,088
THW
Abrdn World Healthcare Fund
N/A$10.42
-1.1%
N/A-14.2%$0.00$94.49M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
Positive News
AVK
Advent Convertible and Income Fund
N/A$10.59
-1.8%
N/A-3.5%$0.00$110.08M0.00N/APositive News
AFB
AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund
N/A$10.04
-1.2%
N/A-1.0%$0.00$61.85M0.00N/A
ARDC
Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund
N/A$13.08
-1.2%
N/A-1.9%$0.00$41.20M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
BFZ
BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust
N/A$10.36
-0.9%
N/A-5.9%$0.00$5.38M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News
BHK
BlackRock Core Bond Trust
N/A$9.98
-1.5%
N/A+2.1%$0.00$10.21M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
Positive News
HYT
BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund
N/A$9.14
-0.4%
N/A-1.2%$0.00$128.00M0.00N/A

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