BRLA vs. AADV, NTN, IVPU, ATS, RIII, NTV, HEIT, NVT, MVCT, and REC
Should you be buying BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust include Albion Development VCT (AADV), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), Invesco Select UK Equity (IVPU), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Rights & Issues Investment Trust (RIII), Northern 2 VCT (NTV), Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), Northern Venture Trust (NVT), Molten Ventures VCT (MVCT), and Record (REC). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Albion Development VCT (LON:AADV) and BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (LON:BRLA) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends and risk.
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust received 3 more outperform votes than Albion Development VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.61% of users gave BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 66.43% of users gave Albion Development VCT an outperform vote.
Albion Development VCT has a beta of 0.04, suggesting that its stock price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its stock price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Albion Development VCT'saverage media sentiment score.
Albion Development VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Albion Development VCT pays out 25,000.0% 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 Latin American Investment Trust pays out 1,655.2% 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 Latin American Investment Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
43.8% of BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Albion Development VCT shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust shares are held by 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.
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust has a net margin of 94.22% compared to BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust's net margin of 53.80%. Albion Development VCT's return on equity of 31.62% beat BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust's return on equity.
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Albion Development VCT. BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Albion Development VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust beats Albion Development VCT on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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