BlackRock Health Sciences Trust (BME) Competitors

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$40.17 -0.40 (-0.98%)
Closing price 02/14/2025 03:58 PM Eastern
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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.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund$56.61MN/AN/AN/AN/A
BlackRock Health Sciences Trust$55.05MN/AN/AN/AN/A

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.11 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. BlackRock Health Sciences Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.70 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%.

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

In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 1 more articles in the media than BlackRock Health Sciences Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for BlackRock Health Sciences Trust. BlackRock Health Sciences Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Health Sciences Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

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

Summary

Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and BlackRock Health Sciences Trust tied by winning 3 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BME vs. The Competition

MetricBlackRock Health Sciences TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorNYSE Exchange
Market CapN/A$1.24B$4.23B$20.30B
Dividend Yield0.06%4.53%4.29%3.68%
P/E RatioN/A24.0014.8545.83
Price / SalesN/A2,386.591,781.4316.48
Price / CashN/A60.5548.7520.33
Price / BookN/A1.165.245.73
Net IncomeN/A$255.85M$1.26B$1.00B
7 Day Performance-1.04%0.23%4.22%0.13%
1 Month Performance1.76%1.23%6.28%1.37%
1 Year Performance-4.98%10.30%15.79%16.03%

BlackRock Health Sciences Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BME
BlackRock Health Sciences Trust
N/A$40.17
-1.0%
N/A-5.1%$0.00$55.05M0.00N/AEx-Dividend
AGD
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund
N/A$10.24
+0.5%
N/A+10.5%$0.00$56.61M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
AWP
abrdn Global Premier Properties Fund
N/A$4.01
-0.5%
N/A+8.3%$0.00$95.16M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
THQ
Abrdn Healthcare Opportunities Fund
N/A$20.46
-1.3%
N/A+5.3%$0.00$191.10M0.001,088Dividend Announcement
Positive News
THW
Abrdn World Healthcare Fund
N/A$11.91
-0.2%
N/A-6.1%$0.00$94.49M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
AVK
Advent Convertible and Income Fund
N/A$12.27
-0.5%
N/A+4.3%$0.00$110.08M0.00N/AEx-Dividend
Short Interest ↑
AFB
AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund
N/A$11.14
flat
N/A+2.5%$0.00$61.85M0.00N/A
ARDC
Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund
N/A$15.52
+0.5%
N/A+11.0%$0.00$56.16M0.00N/ADividend Cut
BFZ
BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust
N/A$11.31
+0.3%
N/A-4.4%$0.00$12.86M0.00N/AEx-Dividend
BHK
BlackRock Core Bond Trust
N/A$10.49
-0.6%
N/A+1.4%$0.00$26.22M0.00N/AEx-Dividend
Short Interest ↓
HYT
BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund
N/A$9.84
-0.4%
N/A+3.4%$0.00$164.69M0.00N/AEx-Dividend
Short Interest ↓
Positive News

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