BERI vs. MERC, BASC, JZCP, PVN, BRSA, MMIT, JARA, FTF, ASIT, and UAV
Should you be buying BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust include Mercia Asset Management (MERC), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), ProVen VCT (PVN), BlackRock Sustainable American Income (BRSA), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), Aberforth Split Level Income (ASIT), and Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust (LON:BERI) and Mercia Asset Management (LON:MERC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
11.7% of BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.8% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.5% of BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.3% of Mercia Asset Management shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Mercia Asset Management has a consensus target price of GBX 64, indicating a potential upside of 93.94%. Given Mercia Asset Management's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Mercia Asset Management is more favorable than BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust.
BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust has a net margin of 0.00% compared to Mercia Asset Management's net margin of -9.81%. Mercia Asset Management's return on equity of -1.38% beat BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust's return on equity.
Mercia Asset Management received 68 more outperform votes than BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Mercia Asset Management has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust. Mercia Asset Management is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Mercia Asset Management pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust pays out -3,076.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Mercia Asset Management pays out -10,000.0% 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.
In the previous week, Mercia Asset Management had 1 more articles in the media than BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Mercia Asset Management and 0 mentions for BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust. Mercia Asset Management's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Mercia Asset Management is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust has a beta of 1.05, indicating that its stock price is 5% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mercia Asset Management has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Mercia Asset Management beats BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust on 15 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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