BlackRock Health Sciences Trust
BME NYSE
BlackRock Health Sciences Trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its total assets in equity securities of energy and natural resources companies and equity derivatives with exposure to the energy and natural resources industry....
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- Dividend yield
- 6.91% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 14.0% Below Average
- Beta
- 0.48 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 35.2345.74
How BME has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 20Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, BME returned +38.0% with dividends reinvested — −12.1 pts behind its benchmark.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±14% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −11.0% on Mar 27, 2026 — 28 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 24% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, BME delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.48 means BME has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average44.13 +3.1%
- 26-day average44.00 +3.4%
- 50-day average43.75 +4.0%
- 200-day average40.94 +11.1%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 69 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 3.14
- Last paid
- Oct 15, 2026
Last 12 months
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About BlackRock Health Sciences Trust
BlackRock Health Sciences Trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its total assets in equity securities of energy and natural resources companies and equity derivatives with exposure to the energy and natural resources industry. The Trust utilizes an option writing (selling) strategy to enhance dividend yield.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- BME
- Exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US09250W1071
- CUSIP
- 09250W107
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- by Sector
- Industry
- Health Care
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Oct 20, 2026
Dataas of Oct 21, 2026
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