BKT vs. SLRC, MQY, HQH, MYI, VMO, NXP, MUJ, PEO, IFN, and VKQ
Should you be buying BlackRock Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Income Trust include SLR Investment (SLRC), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), The India Fund (IFN), and Invesco Municipal Trust (VKQ). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
SLR Investment (NASDAQ:SLRC) and BlackRock Income Trust (NYSE:BKT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and community ranking.
SLR Investment received 272 more outperform votes than BlackRock Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 58.43% of users gave BlackRock Income Trust an outperform vote while only 55.16% of users gave SLR Investment an outperform vote.
SLR Investment has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Income Trust.
SLR Investment presently has a consensus price target of $14.80, indicating a potential downside of 8.64%. Given BlackRock Income Trust's higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe SLR Investment is more favorable than BlackRock Income Trust.
In the previous week, SLR Investment had 6 more articles in the media than BlackRock Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for SLR Investment and 1 mentions for BlackRock Income Trust. BlackRock Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.97 beat SLR Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that SLR Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
SLR Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. BlackRock Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. SLR Investment pays out 92.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SLR Investment has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and BlackRock Income Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
35.3% of SLR Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 39.4% of BlackRock Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 8.2% of SLR Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
SLR Investment has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Income Trust has a beta of 0.41, suggesting that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.
SLR Investment has a net margin of 41.66% compared to SLR Investment's net margin of 0.00%. BlackRock Income Trust's return on equity of 9.51% beat SLR Investment's return on equity.
Summary
SLR Investment beats BlackRock Income Trust on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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