HQH vs. SLRC, MQY, MYI, PHK, MFIC, NXP, MUC, VMO, MUJ, 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 (MQY), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), 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 superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, earnings, dividends, risk, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
SLR Investment currently has a consensus target price of $14.50, suggesting a potential downside of 10.55%. Given Abrdn Healthcare Investors' higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe SLR Investment is more favorable than Abrdn Healthcare Investors.
SLR Investment has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Abrdn Healthcare Investors has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, SLR Investment had 8 more articles in the media than Abrdn Healthcare Investors. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for SLR Investment and 2 mentions for Abrdn Healthcare Investors. Abrdn Healthcare Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat SLR Investment's score of -0.50 indicating that SLR Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SLR Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Abrdn Healthcare Investors.
35.3% of SLR Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.6% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of SLR Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 55.24% of users gave SLR Investment an outperform vote.
SLR Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Abrdn Healthcare Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.7%. SLR Investment pays out 92.1% 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. SLR Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
SLR Investment has a net margin of 41.66% compared to SLR Investment's net margin of 0.00%. Abrdn Healthcare Investors' return on equity of 9.51% beat SLR Investment's return on equity.
Summary
SLR Investment beats Abrdn Healthcare Investors on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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