ASIT vs. BERI, IGC, BASC, SEC, UAV, HANA, JSGI, FTF, JZCP, and BRSA
Should you be buying Aberforth Split Level Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aberforth Split Level Income Trust include BlackRock Energy and Resources (BERI), India Capital Growth (IGC), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), Strategic Equity Capital (SEC), Unicorn AIM VCT (UAV), Hansa Investment (HANA), JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), and BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust (BRSA). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (LON:ASIT) and BlackRock Energy and Resources (LON:BERI) 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.
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust's return on equity of 0.00% beat BlackRock Energy and Resources' return on equity.
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust received 71 more outperform votes than BlackRock Energy and Resources when rated by MarketBeat users.
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. BlackRock Energy and Resources pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Aberforth Split Level Income Trust pays out 5,555.6% 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 Energy and Resources pays out -2,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
47.0% of Aberforth Split Level Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.9% of BlackRock Energy and Resources shares are held by institutional investors. 38.1% of Aberforth Split Level Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.2% of BlackRock Energy and Resources shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Energy and Resources. BlackRock Energy and Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aberforth Split Level Income Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, BlackRock Energy and Resources had 3 more articles in the media than Aberforth Split Level Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for BlackRock Energy and Resources and 0 mentions for Aberforth Split Level Income Trust. BlackRock Energy and Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Aberforth Split Level Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Energy and Resources is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Aberforth Split Level Income Trust beats BlackRock Energy and Resources on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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