BRGE vs. GCP, SEIT, BGFD, JLEN, USA, IPX, BRSC, HSL, FEML, and ESCT
Should you be buying BlackRock Greater Europe stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Greater Europe include GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP), SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT), Baillie Gifford Japan (BGFD), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust (BRSC), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), and The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Greater Europe (LON:BRGE) and GCP Infrastructure Investments (LON:GCP) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
BlackRock Greater Europe has higher revenue and earnings than GCP Infrastructure Investments. BlackRock Greater Europe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GCP Infrastructure Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackRock Greater Europe has a net margin of 92.96% compared to GCP Infrastructure Investments' net margin of 72.61%. BlackRock Greater Europe's return on equity of 17.45% beat GCP Infrastructure Investments' return on equity.
BlackRock Greater Europe pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. GCP Infrastructure Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. BlackRock Greater Europe pays out 769.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. GCP Infrastructure Investments pays out 23,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
17.6% of BlackRock Greater Europe shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.3% of GCP Infrastructure Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 9.8% of BlackRock Greater Europe shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of GCP Infrastructure Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
GCP Infrastructure Investments received 18 more outperform votes than BlackRock Greater Europe when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 72.16% of users gave BlackRock Greater Europe an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave GCP Infrastructure Investments an outperform vote.
In the previous week, GCP Infrastructure Investments had 10 more articles in the media than BlackRock Greater Europe. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for GCP Infrastructure Investments and 0 mentions for BlackRock Greater Europe. GCP Infrastructure Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat BlackRock Greater Europe's score of 0.00 indicating that GCP Infrastructure Investments is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock Greater Europe has a beta of 1.02, indicating that its stock price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, GCP Infrastructure Investments has a beta of 0.34, indicating that its stock price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BlackRock Greater Europe beats GCP Infrastructure Investments on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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