BKT vs. FUND, MQT, MVT, MMT, ZTR, TSI, RCS, BKN, PMM, and TDF
Should you be buying BlackRock Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Income Trust include Sprott Focus Trust (FUND), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund II (MQT), BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT), MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), Virtus Global Dividend & Income Fund (ZTR), TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI), PIMCO Strategic Income Fund (RCS), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), Putnam Managed Municipal Income Trust (PMM), and Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Sprott Focus Trust (NASDAQ:FUND) and BlackRock Income Trust (NYSE:BKT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends and media sentiment.
Sprott Focus Trust has a beta of 1.08, meaning that its share price is 8% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Income Trust has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its share price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Sprott Focus Trust received 58 more outperform votes than BlackRock Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.28% of users gave Sprott Focus Trust an outperform vote while only 58.43% of users gave BlackRock Income Trust an outperform vote.
12.6% of Sprott Focus Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.4% of BlackRock Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 48.9% of Sprott Focus Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BlackRock Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Sprott Focus Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Sprott Focus Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.50 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. BlackRock Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Sprott Focus Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
Sprott Focus Trust beats BlackRock Income Trust on 5 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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