BRLA vs. ROOF, NTV, ATS, NTN, NVT, OOA, MVCT, AADV, PU13, and IGV
Should you be buying BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust include Atrato Onsite Energy (ROOF), Northern 2 VCT (NTV), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), Northern Venture Trust (NVT), Octopus AIM VCT (OOA), Molten Ventures VCT (MVCT), Albion Development VCT (AADV), Puma VCT 13 (PU13), and Income & Growth VCT (IGV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (LON:BRLA) and Atrato Onsite Energy (LON:ROOF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, risk, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends and analyst recommendations.
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.0%. Atrato Onsite Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.2%. BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust pays out 1,691.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Atrato Onsite Energy pays out 15,000.0% 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 Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Atrato Onsite Energy. BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Atrato Onsite Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust has a net margin of 94.77% compared to Atrato Onsite Energy's net margin of 71.54%. BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust's return on equity of 34.13% beat Atrato Onsite Energy's return on equity.
42.7% of BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.5% of Atrato Onsite Energy shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.3% of BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Atrato Onsite Energy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Atrato Onsite Energy has a consensus target price of GBX 100, indicating a potential upside of 36.61%. Given Atrato Onsite Energy's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Atrato Onsite Energy is more favorable than BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust.
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust received 94 more outperform votes than Atrato Onsite Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Atrato Onsite Energy an outperform vote while only 67.61% of users gave BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Atrato Onsite Energy had 1 more articles in the media than BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Atrato Onsite Energy and 0 mentions for BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust. Atrato Onsite Energy's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Atrato Onsite Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust has a beta of 0.99, indicating that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Atrato Onsite Energy has a beta of -0.16, indicating that its stock price is 116% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust beats Atrato Onsite Energy on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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