BCAT vs. FSK, NMFC, OXLC, CET, BCSF, CGBD, ECC, NXP, PEO, and MYN
Should you be buying BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust include FS KKR Capital (FSK), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Central Securities (CET), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), Eagle Point Credit (ECC), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), and BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (NYSE:BCAT) and FS KKR Capital (NYSE:FSK) are both manufacturing companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, valuation, dividends and risk.
FS KKR Capital has a consensus price target of $20.39, indicating a potential upside of 0.64%. Given FS KKR Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe FS KKR Capital is more favorable than BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust.
In the previous week, FS KKR Capital had 5 more articles in the media than BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for FS KKR Capital and 1 mentions for BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust. FS KKR Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.13 beat BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust's score of 1.02 indicating that FS KKR Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
FS KKR Capital received 77 more outperform votes than BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
36.1% of BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 36.3% of FS KKR Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of FS KKR Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
FS KKR Capital has a net margin of 37.06% compared to BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust's net margin of 0.00%. FS KKR Capital's return on equity of 12.42% beat BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust's return on equity.
FS KKR Capital has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust.
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.4%. FS KKR Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.6%. FS KKR Capital pays out 106.7% 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 Capital Allocation Term Trust has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, FS KKR Capital has a beta of 1.26, suggesting that its stock price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
FS KKR Capital beats BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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