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BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI) Competitors

GBX 141 -2.00 (-1.40%)
As of 04/17/2025 11:50 AM Eastern

BRFI vs. FGT, PIN, ATT, BNKR, N91, VEIL, LWDB, TFG, FCSS, and ASL

Should you be buying BlackRock Frontiers stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Frontiers include Finsbury Growth & Income (FGT), Pantheon International (PIN), Allianz Technology Trust (ATT), The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR), Ninety One Group (N91), Vietnam Enterprise (VEIL), Law Debenture (LWDB), Tetragon Financial (TFG), Fidelity China Special (FCSS), and Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

BlackRock Frontiers vs.

Finsbury Growth & Income (LON:FGT) and BlackRock Frontiers (LON:BRFI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, profitability and institutional ownership.

Finsbury Growth & Income has a net margin of 89.28% compared to BlackRock Frontiers' net margin of 76.11%. BlackRock Frontiers' return on equity of 14.57% beat Finsbury Growth & Income's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Finsbury Growth & Income89.28% 6.50% 4.42%
BlackRock Frontiers 76.11%14.57%13.46%

28.5% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.1% of BlackRock Frontiers shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Finsbury Growth & Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of BlackRock Frontiers shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Finsbury Growth & Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 19 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. BlackRock Frontiers pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Finsbury Growth & Income pays out 31.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock Frontiers pays out 28.4% 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. BlackRock Frontiers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Finsbury Growth & Income received 10 more outperform votes than BlackRock Frontiers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.27% of users gave Finsbury Growth & Income an outperform vote while only 68.00% of users gave BlackRock Frontiers an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Finsbury Growth & IncomeOutperform Votes
78
70.27%
Underperform Votes
33
29.73%
BlackRock FrontiersOutperform Votes
68
68.00%
Underperform Votes
32
32.00%

Finsbury Growth & Income has higher revenue and earnings than BlackRock Frontiers. BlackRock Frontiers is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Finsbury Growth & Income, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Finsbury Growth & Income£101.41M12.81£90.54M£60.8914.34
BlackRock Frontiers£96.46M3.47£73.42M£24.655.72

In the previous week, Finsbury Growth & Income had 1 more articles in the media than BlackRock Frontiers. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Finsbury Growth & Income and 0 mentions for BlackRock Frontiers. Finsbury Growth & Income's average media sentiment score of 1.80 beat BlackRock Frontiers' score of 0.00 indicating that Finsbury Growth & Income is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Finsbury Growth & Income Very Positive
BlackRock Frontiers Neutral

Finsbury Growth & Income has a beta of 0.52, indicating that its share price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Frontiers has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Finsbury Growth & Income beats BlackRock Frontiers on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BRFI vs. The Competition

MetricBlackRock FrontiersAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£334.74M£1.10B£3.70B£2.52B
Dividend Yield4.55%4.37%4.16%4.80%
P/E Ratio5.7223.5913.97130.99
Price / Sales3.472,232.991,660.40234,951.35
Price / Cash48.2761.1450.4928.35
Price / Book0.661.103.364.43
Net Income£73.42M£262.41M£1.18B£5.88B
7 Day Performance-2.08%2.54%2.02%2.87%
1 Month Performance-7.84%1.33%0.26%-0.96%
1 Year Performance-4.41%1.24%9.47%22.28%

BlackRock Frontiers Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BRFI
BlackRock Frontiers
N/AGBX 141
-1.4%
N/A-4.4%£334.74M£96.46M5.72N/ADividend Increase
FGT
Finsbury Growth & Income
N/AGBX 871
-0.1%
N/A+7.4%£1.30B£101.41M14.31N/APositive News
Gap Up
PIN
Pantheon International
N/AGBX 275.50
flat
N/A-15.3%£1.27B£72.76M41.26455Gap Up
ATT
Allianz Technology Trust
N/AGBX 333.50
-1.8%
N/A-1.1%£1.27B£511.77M2.52N/ANews Coverage
BNKR
The Bankers Investment Trust
N/AGBX 108.40
-0.7%
N/A-2.6%£1.20B£231.92M5.49N/APositive News
Gap Up
N91
Ninety One Group
N/AGBX 134.40
+0.1%
GBX 173
+28.7%
-16.9%£1.19B£586.81M7.741,180Gap Up
VEIL
Vietnam Enterprise
N/AGBX 510
-1.7%
N/A-9.1%£1.17B£17.87M-344.47N/ANews Coverage
LWDB
Law Debenture
N/AGBX 873
flat
N/A+7.4%£1.15B£203.87M8.12260News Coverage
TFG
Tetragon Financial
N/AGBX 13.90
+0.4%
N/AN/A£1.13B£22.12B8.92N/AHigh Trading Volume
FCSS
Fidelity China Special
N/AGBX 224.50
-1.1%
N/A+10.4%£1.11B£-177,570,734.591.11N/APositive News
Gap Up
ASL
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust
N/AGBX 1,314
-0.8%
N/A-2.7%£1.10B£226.05M4.32N/ANews Coverage
Positive News

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This page (LON:BRFI) was last updated on 4/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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