BlackRock Latin American (BRLA) Competitors

Pollen Street (LON:HONY) and BlackRock Latin American (LON:BRLA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Is HONY or BRLA a better dividend stock?

Pollen Street pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.80 per share. BlackRock Latin American pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Pollen Street pays out 98.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. BlackRock Latin American pays out -34.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock Latin American is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in HONY or BRLA?

Pollen Street received 2 more outperform votes than BlackRock Latin American when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.81% of users gave Pollen Street an outperform vote while only 67.61% of users gave BlackRock Latin American an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pollen Street	Outperform Votes 98 74.81%	Underperform Votes 33 25.19%
BlackRock Latin American	Outperform Votes 96 67.61%	Underperform Votes 46 32.39%

Which has higher earnings and valuation, HONY or BRLA?

Pollen Street has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Latin American. BlackRock Latin American is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pollen Street, 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
Pollen Street	N/A	N/A	N/A	£0.81	N/A
BlackRock Latin American	-£26.48M	-4.79	-£30.52M	-£66.59	-5.18

Does the media refer more to HONY or BRLA?

In the previous week, Pollen Street's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled BlackRock Latin American'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Pollen Street	Neutral
BlackRock Latin American	Neutral

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in HONY or BRLA?

38.8% of BlackRock Latin American shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of BlackRock Latin American shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Is HONY or BRLA more profitable?

BlackRock Latin American has a net margin of 115.25% compared to Pollen Street's net margin of 0.00%. Pollen Street's return on equity of 0.00% beat BlackRock Latin American's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pollen Street	N/A	N/A	N/A
BlackRock Latin American	115.25%	-14.65%	19.32%

Summary

Pollen Street and BlackRock Latin American tied by winning 6 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.