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BlackRock Latin American (BRLA) Competitors

GBX 366 -5.00 (-1.35%)
As of 09/19/2025 11:53 AM Eastern

BRLA vs. PCGH, TAM, PAC, JUGI, JEMI, GRID, NAIT, HEFT, BHIU, and FAS

Should you be buying BlackRock Latin American stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Latin American include Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (PCGH), Tatton Asset Management (TAM), Pacific Assets (PAC), JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI), JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts (JEMI), Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID), North American Income Trust (NAIT), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), BMO UK High Income Trust (BHIU), and Fidelity Asian Values (FAS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

BlackRock Latin American vs. Its Competitors

BlackRock Latin American (LON:BRLA) and Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (LON:PCGH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

BlackRock Latin American pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. BlackRock Latin American pays out -12.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare pays out -5.2% 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 Latin American is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

In the previous week, BlackRock Latin American's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Polar Capital Glb Healthcare'saverage media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
BlackRock Latin American Neutral
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare Neutral

7.5% of BlackRock Latin American shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 5.8% of Polar Capital Glb Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of BlackRock Latin American shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Polar Capital Glb Healthcare shares are owned by 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.

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Latin American. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock Latin American, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BlackRock Latin American-£64.28M-1.68-£30.52M-£2.23-164.41
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare-£53.48M-7.98£77.59M-£0.46-764.55

BlackRock Latin American has a net margin of 115.25% compared to Polar Capital Glb Healthcare's net margin of 91.60%. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare's return on equity of 16.14% beat BlackRock Latin American's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BlackRock Latin American115.25% -14.65% 19.32%
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare 91.60%16.14%N/A

Summary

BlackRock Latin American beats Polar Capital Glb Healthcare on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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BRLA vs. The Competition

MetricBlackRock Latin AmericanAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£108.08M£1.48B£5.97B£2.56B
Dividend Yield4.91%4.62%4.32%5.31%
P/E Ratio-164.414,723.751,770.725,395.51
Price / Sales-1.681,963.821,360.1597,580.70
Price / Cash1,865.0060.62127.9527.93
Price / Book0.751.372.089.20
Net Income-£30.52M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance0.27%0.20%1.07%0.69%
1 Month Performance2.61%1.66%3.07%3.41%
1 Year Performance14.38%8.94%33.04%195.42%

BlackRock Latin American Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BRLA
BlackRock Latin American
N/AGBX 366
-1.3%
N/A+7.8%£108.08M-£64.28M-164.41N/A
PCGH
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare
N/AGBX 354
+0.9%
N/A-9.5%£429.30M-£53.48M-768.90N/ADividend Increase
High Trading Volume
TAM
Tatton Asset Management
N/AGBX 705
-2.4%
N/A-1.1%£426.39M£45.31M2,689.81103Positive News
PAC
Pacific Assets
N/AGBX 357
flat
N/A-2.7%£420.63M£54.96M962.261,740News Coverage
JUGI
JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income
N/AGBX 323
-0.3%
N/A-3.3%£416.33M£44.86M723.40N/A
JEMI
JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts
N/AGBX 153.50
+0.3%
N/A+19.1%£413.14M£62.86M753.19N/ANews Coverage
GRID
Gresham House Energy Storage
2.396 of 5 stars
GBX 72
-0.6%
GBX 7,500
+10,316.7%
+44.0%£409.73M-£113.35M-354.33N/APositive News
NAIT
North American Income Trust
N/AGBX 348.50
+0.6%
N/A+12.9%£404.37M£93.81M503.61N/ADividend Announcement
HEFT
Henderson European Focus Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£400.01M£79.72M537.14N/AHigh Trading Volume
BHIU
BMO UK High Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£391.68M£3.93M16,900.00N/AGap Up
FAS
Fidelity Asian Values
N/AGBX 594
+1.0%
N/A+20.4%£387.40M£36.28M1,286.83N/APositive News

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This page (LON:BRLA) was last updated on 9/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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