USF vs. THRG, PINT, OAP3, AAS, FSG, TPOU, AIE, GHE, BHGG, and ATR
Should you be buying US Solar Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of US Solar Fund include BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (THRG), Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT), Octopus Apollo VCT (OAP3), abrdn Asia Focus (AAS), Foresight Group (FSG), Third Point Investors (TPOU), Ashoka India Equity Investment (AIE), Gresham House (GHE), BH Global (BHGG), and Schroder Asian Total Return Inv. (ATR). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
US Solar Fund vs.
US Solar Fund (LON:USF) and BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (LON:THRG) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
In the previous week, BlackRock Throgmorton Trust had 4 more articles in the media than US Solar Fund. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for BlackRock Throgmorton Trust and 4 mentions for US Solar Fund. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat US Solar Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust received 87 more outperform votes than US Solar Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave US Solar Fund an outperform vote while only 70.97% of users gave BlackRock Throgmorton Trust an outperform vote.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has higher revenue and earnings than US Solar Fund. US Solar Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock Throgmorton Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
91.4% of US Solar Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.8% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of US Solar Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
US Solar Fund has a net margin of 107.10% compared to BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's net margin of 92.84%. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's return on equity of 14.49% beat US Solar Fund's return on equity.
US Solar Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,225.5%. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. US Solar Fund pays out -3,857.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust pays out 15.9% 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. US Solar Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust beats US Solar Fund on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:USF) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
