HQH vs. SLRC, MYI, MQY, PHK, MFIC, NXP, VMO, MUJ, IFN, and PEO
Should you be buying Abrdn Healthcare Investors stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Abrdn Healthcare Investors include SLR Investment (SLRC), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), The India Fund (IFN), and Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
SLR Investment (NASDAQ:SLRC) and Abrdn Healthcare Investors (NYSE:HQH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
30.2% of SLR Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.6% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of SLR Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
SLR Investment has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Abrdn Healthcare Investors has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its share price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SLR Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Abrdn Healthcare Investors.
SLR Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. Abrdn Healthcare Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. SLR Investment pays out 117.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SLR Investment has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Abrdn Healthcare Investors has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
SLR Investment has a net margin of 33.31% compared to SLR Investment's net margin of 0.00%. Abrdn Healthcare Investors' return on equity of 9.36% beat SLR Investment's return on equity.
SLR Investment received 246 more outperform votes than Abrdn Healthcare Investors when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 65.08% of users gave Abrdn Healthcare Investors an outperform vote while only 55.32% of users gave SLR Investment an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Abrdn Healthcare Investors had 1 more articles in the media than SLR Investment. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Abrdn Healthcare Investors and 2 mentions for SLR Investment. Abrdn Healthcare Investors' average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat SLR Investment's score of 0.96 indicating that SLR Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SLR Investment presently has a consensus target price of $14.25, indicating a potential downside of 5.19%. Given Abrdn Healthcare Investors' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe SLR Investment is more favorable than Abrdn Healthcare Investors.
Summary
SLR Investment beats Abrdn Healthcare Investors on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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