abrdn Healthcare Investors (NYSE:HQH) vs. Invesco QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQ) Financial Survey

Invesco QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQ) and abrdn Healthcare Investors (NYSE:HQH) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk and profitability.

Dividends

Invesco QQQ pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. abrdn Healthcare Investors pays an annual dividend of $2.19 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.2%.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Invesco QQQ and abrdn Healthcare Investors”s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Invesco QQQ	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
abrdn Healthcare Investors	$11.71 million	89.85	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and target prices for Invesco QQQ and abrdn Healthcare Investors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Invesco QQQ	0	4	5	0	2.82
abrdn Healthcare Investors	0	0	0	0	0.00

Invesco QQQ currently has a consensus target price of $619.29, suggesting a potential upside of 0.00%. Given Invesco QQQ’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Invesco QQQ is more favorable than abrdn Healthcare Investors.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

44.6% of Invesco QQQ shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.6% of abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 7.3% of abrdn Healthcare Investors shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Invesco QQQ and abrdn Healthcare Investors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Invesco QQQ	N/A	N/A	N/A
abrdn Healthcare Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A

Volatility & Risk

Invesco QQQ has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn Healthcare Investors has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Invesco QQQ beats abrdn Healthcare Investors on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Invesco QQQ

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 is a unit investment trust that issues securities called Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock. The Trust’s investment objective is to provide investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index. The Trust provides investors with the opportunity to purchase units of beneficial interest in the Trust representing proportionate undivided interests in the portfolio of securities held by the Trust, which consists of substantially all of the securities, in substantially the same weighting, as the component securities of the Nasdaq-100 Index. Invesco PowerShares Capital Management, LLC is the Sponsor of the Trust and The Bank of New York Mellon is the Trustee.

About abrdn Healthcare Investors

Abrdn Healthcare Investors is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by abrdn Inc. The fund invests in public equity markets across the globe. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating in the healthcare sector, including the biotechnology, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals industries. The fund primarily invests in growth stocks of small cap companies. It employs fundamental analysis with a focus on factors such as current or anticipated market position for services or products, experienced business management, recognized technological expertise, and the ability either to generate funds internally to finance growth or to secure outside sources of capital to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index, the S&P 500 Index, and the S&P 1500 Healthcare Index. Abrdn Healthcare Investors was formed on October 31, 1986 and is domiciled in the United States.