BRSC vs. SEIT, GCP, BGFD, JEDT, ESCT, FEML, BRGE, USA, VOF, and HSL
Should you be buying BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust include SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEIT), GCP Infrastructure Investments (GCP), The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust (BGFD), JPMorgan European Discovery (JEDT), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), VinaCapital Vietnam Opp Fund (VOF), and Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust (LON:BRSC) and SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (LON:SEIT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings and media sentiment.
In the previous week, BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust and BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust both had 1 articles in the media. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust has a beta of 1.09, indicating that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust has a beta of 0.42, indicating that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 41 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.0%. BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust pays out -1,423.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust pays out -30,000.0% 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. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust's return on equity of -1.69% beat BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust's return on equity.
BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust received 51 more outperform votes than SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust an outperform vote while only 61.39% of users gave BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust an outperform vote.
40.8% of BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 68.5% of SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income 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.
Summary
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust beats BlackRock Smaller Companies Trust on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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