BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI) Competitors

BlackRock Frontiers (LON:BRFI) and JTC (LON:JTC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, risk, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.

Is BRFI or JTC a better dividend stock?

BlackRock Frontiers pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. JTC pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. BlackRock Frontiers pays out 28.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JTC pays out 67.3% 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. BlackRock Frontiers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Do analysts prefer BRFI or JTC?

JTC has a consensus price target of GBX 1,400, suggesting a potential upside of 66.27%. Given JTC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe JTC is more favorable than BlackRock Frontiers.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BlackRock Frontiers	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
JTC	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer BRFI or JTC?

JTC received 3 more outperform votes than BlackRock Frontiers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.96% of users gave JTC an outperform vote while only 68.00% of users gave BlackRock Frontiers an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
BlackRock Frontiers	Outperform Votes 68 68.00%	Underperform Votes 32 32.00%
JTC	Outperform Votes 71 73.96%	Underperform Votes 25 26.04%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of BRFI or JTC?

51.1% of BlackRock Frontiers shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of JTC shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.7% of BlackRock Frontiers shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of JTC shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Which has more risk & volatility, BRFI or JTC?

BlackRock Frontiers has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JTC has a beta of 0.68, suggesting that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer BRFI or JTC?

In the previous week, JTC had 4 more articles in the media than BlackRock Frontiers. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for JTC and 0 mentions for BlackRock Frontiers. JTC's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat BlackRock Frontiers' score of 0.00 indicating that JTC is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
BlackRock Frontiers	Neutral
JTC	Neutral

Is BRFI or JTC more profitable?

BlackRock Frontiers has a net margin of 76.11% compared to JTC's net margin of 10.29%. BlackRock Frontiers' return on equity of 14.57% beat JTC's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BlackRock Frontiers	76.11%	14.57%	13.46%
JTC	10.29%	5.70%	4.96%

Which has better earnings & valuation, BRFI or JTC?

BlackRock Frontiers has higher earnings, but lower revenue than JTC. BlackRock Frontiers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JTC, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BlackRock Frontiers	£96.46M	3.79	£73.42M	£24.65	6.24
JTC	£291.42M	4.86	£29.99M	£17.83	47.22

Summary

JTC beats BlackRock Frontiers on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.