BlackRock Health Sciences Trust II
BMEZ NYSE
The Trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its total assets in equity securities of companies principally engaged in the health sciences group of industries and equity derivatives with exposure to the health sciences group of in...
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- Dividend yield
- 8.06% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 16.3% Average Risk
- Beta
- 0.66 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 13.1717.13
How BMEZ has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Oct 6Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, BMEZ returned +30.9% with dividends reinvested — −21.5 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 ±16% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −11.2% on Mar 20, 2026 — 57 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 27% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, BMEZ delivered less return with more risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.66 means BMEZ 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 average16.60 −1.3%
- 26-day average16.55 −1.0%
- 50-day average16.26 +0.7%
- 200-day average14.95 +9.6%
The price is above 2 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 81 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.32
- Last paid
- Sep 15, 2026
Last 12 months
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About BlackRock Health Sciences Trust II
The Trust seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its total assets in equity securities of companies principally engaged in the health sciences group of industries and equity derivatives with exposure to the health sciences group of industries. The Trust utilizes an option writing (selling) strategy in an effort to generate current gains from options premiums and to enhance the Trust’s risk-adjusted returns.
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- BMEZ
- Exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US09260E1055
- CUSIP
- 09260E105
- 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 6, 2026
Dataas of Oct 7, 2026
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