BRSC vs. SEIT, BRGE, USA, GCP, FEML, BGFD, ESCT, JLEN, IPX, and HSL
Should you be buying BlackRock Smaller Companies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Smaller Companies include SDCL Energy Efficiency Income (SEIT), BlackRock Greater Europe (BRGE), Baillie Gifford US Growth (USA), GCP Infrastructure Investment (GCP), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), Baillie Gifford Japan (BGFD), The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT), JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), and Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income (LON:SEIT) and BlackRock Smaller Companies (LON:BRSC) 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 earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk, community ranking, profitability, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Smaller Companies has a beta of 1.09, suggesting that its stock price is 9% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BlackRock Smaller Companies had 1 more articles in the media than SDCL Energy Efficiency Income. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BlackRock Smaller Companies and 1 mentions for SDCL Energy Efficiency Income. BlackRock Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat SDCL Energy Efficiency Income's score of 0.79 indicating that SDCL Energy Efficiency Income is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BlackRock Smaller Companies received 51 more outperform votes than SDCL Energy Efficiency Income when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.71% of users gave SDCL Energy Efficiency Income an outperform vote while only 61.39% of users gave BlackRock Smaller Companies an outperform vote.
68.5% of SDCL Energy Efficiency Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.8% of BlackRock Smaller Companies shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of SDCL Energy Efficiency Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 4.0% of BlackRock Smaller Companies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BlackRock Smaller Companies' return on equity of -1.69% beat SDCL Energy Efficiency Income's return on equity.
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.4%. BlackRock Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 41 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income pays out -30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock Smaller Companies pays out -1,423.6% 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. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Smaller Companies. SDCL Energy Efficiency Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock Smaller Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income beats BlackRock Smaller Companies on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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