BRIG vs. TV1, IVI, TIGT, PVN, JARA, BSC, JUS, OIG, ASIT, and AUGM
Should you be buying BlackRock Income and Growth stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Income and Growth include Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), Invesco Income Growth Trust (IVI), Troy Income & Growth (TIGT), ProVen VCT (PVN), JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets (JARA), British Smaller Companies VCT2 (BSC), Jupiter US Smaller Companies (JUS), Oryx International Growth Fund (OIG), Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (ASIT), and Augmentum Fintech (AUGM). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Income and Growth vs.
Thames Ventures VCT 1 (LON:TV1) and BlackRock Income and Growth (LON:BRIG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.
BlackRock Income and Growth has a net margin of 90.17% compared to Thames Ventures VCT 1's net margin of 0.00%. BlackRock Income and Growth's return on equity of 15.61% beat Thames Ventures VCT 1's return on equity.
In the previous week, Thames Ventures VCT 1's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled BlackRock Income and Growth'saverage media sentiment score.
Thames Ventures VCT 1 pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. BlackRock Income and Growth pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Thames Ventures VCT 1 pays out -5,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock Income and Growth pays out 23.4% 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 Income and Growth received 33 more outperform votes than Thames Ventures VCT 1 when rated by MarketBeat users.
BlackRock Income and Growth has higher revenue and earnings than Thames Ventures VCT 1. Thames Ventures VCT 1 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock Income and Growth, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Thames Ventures VCT 1 has a beta of 0.12, suggesting that its share price is 88% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Income and Growth has a beta of 0.61, suggesting that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.
13.6% of BlackRock Income and Growth shares are held by institutional investors. 0.0% of Thames Ventures VCT 1 shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 41.4% of BlackRock Income and Growth shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
BlackRock Income and Growth beats Thames Ventures VCT 1 on 13 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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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This page (LON:BRIG) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff