BRFI vs. DIVI, NCYF, GSEO, GABI, MNP, HHI, BRK, GRID, BOOK, and RECI
Should you be buying BlackRock Frontiers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Frontiers include The Diverse Income Trust (DIVI), CQS New City High Yield (NCYF), VH Glob Sustainable Energy Opp (GSEO), GCP Asset Backed Income Fund (GABI), Martin Currie Global Portfolio (MNP), Henderson High Income Trust (HHI), Brooks Macdonald Group (BRK), Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID), Literacy Capital (BOOK), and Real Estate Credit Investments (RECI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Frontiers (LON:BRFI) and The Diverse Income Trust (LON:DIVI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.
The Diverse Income Trust received 55 more outperform votes than BlackRock Frontiers when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.00% of users gave BlackRock Frontiers an outperform vote while only 67.96% of users gave The Diverse Income Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, BlackRock Frontiers' average media sentiment score of 1.54 beat The Diverse Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Frontiers is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BlackRock Frontiers pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. The Diverse Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. BlackRock Frontiers pays out 1,935.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. The Diverse Income Trust pays out -2,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The Diverse Income Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
49.7% of BlackRock Frontiers shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.9% of The Diverse Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of BlackRock Frontiers shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of The Diverse Income Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
BlackRock Frontiers has a net margin of 77.32% compared to The Diverse Income Trust's net margin of 0.00%. BlackRock Frontiers' return on equity of 22.47% beat The Diverse Income Trust's return on equity.
BlackRock Frontiers has higher revenue and earnings than The Diverse Income Trust. The Diverse Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock Frontiers, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BlackRock Frontiers beats The Diverse Income Trust on 9 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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