BYM vs. THW, AWF, AFB, ASA, BHK, CII, BDJ, FRA, BFK, and MHD
Should you be buying BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust include Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (THW), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), BlackRock Core Bond Trust (BHK), BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund (CII), BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust (BDJ), BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund (FRA), BlackRock Municipal Income Trust (BFK), and BlackRock MuniHoldings Fund (MHD). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (NYSE:THW) and BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust (NYSE:BYM) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Abrdn World Healthcare Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%.
Abrdn World Healthcare Fund received 33 more outperform votes than BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.27% of users gave Abrdn World Healthcare Fund an outperform vote while only 60.00% of users gave BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Abrdn World Healthcare Fund had 3 more articles in the media than BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Abrdn World Healthcare Fund and 1 mentions for BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust. BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Abrdn World Healthcare Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that Abrdn World Healthcare Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Abrdn World Healthcare Fund beats BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust on 6 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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