THRG vs. BUT, EWI, PHI, EOT, HSL, FEML, FSG, FSFL, IPX, and NAS
Should you be buying BlackRock Throgmorton Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust include Brunner (BUT), Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust (EWI), Pacific Horizon Investment Trust (PHI), European Opportunities Trust (EOT), Henderson Smaller Companies (HSL), Fidelity Emerging Markets (FEML), Foresight Group (FSG), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), and North Atlantic Smaller Cos (NAS). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust (LON:THRG) and Brunner (LON:BUT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.
In the previous week, Brunner had 12 more articles in the media than BlackRock Throgmorton Trust. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Brunner and 1 mentions for BlackRock Throgmorton Trust. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Brunner's score of 0.07 indicating that BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Brunner has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BlackRock Throgmorton Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Brunner pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust pays out -9,375.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Brunner pays out 5,111.1% 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 Throgmorton Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Brunner has a net margin of 76.73% compared to BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Brunner's return on equity of 3.90% beat BlackRock Throgmorton Trust's return on equity.
33.0% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.5% of Brunner shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.9% of BlackRock Throgmorton Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.4% of Brunner shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Brunner has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Throgmorton Trust. BlackRock Throgmorton Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Brunner, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Brunner received 28 more outperform votes than BlackRock Throgmorton Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.97% of users gave BlackRock Throgmorton Trust an outperform vote while only 66.29% of users gave Brunner an outperform vote.
Summary
Brunner beats BlackRock Throgmorton Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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