BERI vs. PGOO, FTF, BRSA, BASC, MMIT, PVN, AEI, SSIT, ASIT, and JSGI
Should you be buying BlackRock Energy and Resources stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Energy and Resources include ProVen Growth & Income VCT (PGOO), Foresight Enterprise VCT (FTF), BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust (BRSA), Brown Advisory US Smaller Companies (BASC), Mobius Investment Trust (MMIT), ProVen VCT (PVN), abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT), Aberforth Split Level Income Trust (ASIT), and JPMorgan Japan Small Cap Growth & Income (JSGI). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Energy and Resources (LON:BERI) and ProVen Growth & Income VCT (LON:PGOO) 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 community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT received 78 more outperform votes than BlackRock Energy and Resources when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, BlackRock Energy and Resources had 5 more articles in the media than ProVen Growth & Income VCT. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for BlackRock Energy and Resources and 0 mentions for ProVen Growth & Income VCT. BlackRock Energy and Resources' average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat ProVen Growth & Income VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Energy and Resources is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BlackRock Energy and Resources pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. BlackRock Energy and Resources pays out -2,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ProVen Growth & Income VCT pays out -3,750.0% 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. ProVen Growth & Income VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
BlackRock Energy and Resources has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ProVen Growth & Income VCT has a beta of -0.04, suggesting that its share price is 104% less volatile than the S&P 500.
11.9% of BlackRock Energy and Resources shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of BlackRock Energy and Resources shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of ProVen Growth & Income VCT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT's return on equity of -5.58% beat BlackRock Energy and Resources' return on equity.
ProVen Growth & Income VCT has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Energy and Resources. BlackRock Energy and Resources is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ProVen Growth & Income VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
ProVen Growth & Income VCT beats BlackRock Energy and Resources on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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