BME vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, THW, AVK, AFB, FINS, AFT, and AIF
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 Income Credit Strategies Fund (ACP), Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (THW), Advent Convertible and Income Fund (AVK), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), Angel Oak Financial Strategies Income Term Trust (FINS), Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (AFT), and Apollo Tactical Income Fund (AIF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE:AGD) and BlackRock Health Sciences Trust (NYSE:BME) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings and risk.
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.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.4%. BlackRock Health Sciences Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%.
In the previous week, Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund had 2 more articles in the media than BlackRock Health Sciences Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund and 1 mentions for BlackRock Health Sciences Trust. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat BlackRock Health Sciences Trust's score of 0.95 indicating that BlackRock Health Sciences Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
BlackRock Health Sciences Trust beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 4 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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