MQY vs. HQH, SLRC, MFIC, MYI, MUC, PHK, NXP, GAM, VMO, and QQQX
Should you be buying BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund include Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), SLR Investment (SLRC), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), General American Investors (GAM), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), and Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (QQQX). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (NYSE:MQY) and Abrdn Healthcare Investors (NYSE:HQH) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, valuation and risk.
BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.9%. Abrdn Healthcare Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.66 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%.
In the previous week, Abrdn Healthcare Investors had 2 more articles in the media than BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Abrdn Healthcare Investors and 2 mentions for BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund. BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Abrdn Healthcare Investors' score of 0.47 indicating that BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Abrdn Healthcare Investors received 13 more outperform votes than BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.08% of users gave Abrdn Healthcare Investors an outperform vote while only 63.22% of users gave BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund an outperform vote.
25.5% of BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.6% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.3% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its share price is 54% less 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.
Summary
Abrdn Healthcare Investors beats BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund on 7 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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