HQH vs. MQY, SLRC, MYI, MFIC, MUC, PHK, NXP, 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 BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), SLR Investment (SLRC), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), 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.
Abrdn Healthcare Investors (NYSE:HQH) and BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (NYSE:MQY) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation and profitability.
32.6% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 25.5% of BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 7.3% of Abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Abrdn Healthcare Investors has a beta of 0.74, meaning that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
In the previous week, Abrdn Healthcare Investors and Abrdn Healthcare Investors both had 1 articles in the media. Abrdn Healthcare Investors' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund'saverage media sentiment score.
Abrdn Healthcare Investors pays an annual dividend of $1.85 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%. BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.61 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%.
Summary
Abrdn Healthcare Investors beats BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund on 6 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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