BME vs. AGD, AWP, THQ, ACP, VFL, THW, AVK, AFB, FINS, and AFT
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 National Municipal Income Fund (VFL), 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), and Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund (AFT). 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 superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, profitability, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, valuation 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.
In the previous week, BlackRock Health Sciences Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BlackRock Health Sciences Trust and 0 mentions for Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund. Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat BlackRock Health Sciences Trust's score of 0.32 indicating that BlackRock Health Sciences Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. BlackRock Health Sciences Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%.
Summary
BlackRock Health Sciences Trust beats Abrdn Global Dynamic Dividend Fund on 5 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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