BGFD vs. BRSC, SEIT, ESCT, BRGE, GCP, JEDT, IPX, FEML, TMPL, and APAX
Should you be buying The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust include BlackRock Smaller Companies (BRSC), SDCL Energy Efficiency Income (SEIT), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE), GCP Infrastructure Investment (GCP), JPMorgan European Discovery Trust (JEDT), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), Temple Bar (TMPL), and Apax Global Alpha (APAX). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust (LON:BGFD) and BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust (LON:BRSC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust. The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its share price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust's return on equity of -5.68% beat BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust's return on equity.
The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 41 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust pays out -2,173.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust pays out -1,423.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.
The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust received 8 more outperform votes than BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.39% of users gave BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust had 1 more articles in the media than The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust and 0 mentions for The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust. BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.14 beat The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
51.8% of The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.8% of BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust beats The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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