BlackRock Latin American (BRLA) Competitors

Fidelity Asian Values (LON:FAS) and BlackRock Latin American (LON:BRLA) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership and dividends.

Is FAS or BRLA a better dividend stock?

Fidelity Asian Values pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. BlackRock Latin American pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Fidelity Asian Values pays out -18,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BlackRock Latin American pays out 1,608.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Which has more volatility & risk, FAS or BRLA?

Fidelity Asian Values has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Latin American has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its stock price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is FAS or BRLA more profitable?

BlackRock Latin American has a net margin of 94.22% compared to Fidelity Asian Values' net margin of -97.04%. BlackRock Latin American's return on equity of 31.62% beat Fidelity Asian Values' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Fidelity Asian Values	-97.04%	-1.52%	0.25%
BlackRock Latin American	94.22%	31.62%	19.32%

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in FAS or BRLA?

Fidelity Asian Values received 17 more outperform votes than BlackRock Latin American when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.61% of users gave BlackRock Latin American an outperform vote while only 62.09% of users gave Fidelity Asian Values an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Fidelity Asian Values	Outperform Votes 113 62.09%	Underperform Votes 69 37.91%
BlackRock Latin American	Outperform Votes 96 67.61%	Underperform Votes 46 32.39%

Which has better valuation & earnings, FAS or BRLA?

BlackRock Latin American has higher revenue and earnings than Fidelity Asian Values. Fidelity Asian Values is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock Latin American, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Fidelity Asian Values	£5.99M	58.81	-£5.81M	-£0.08	-6,200.00
BlackRock Latin American	£56.68M	1.56	£53.41M	£1.43	209.79

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in FAS or BRLA?

53.4% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of BlackRock Latin American shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.7% of Fidelity Asian Values shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of BlackRock Latin American shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Does the media favor FAS or BRLA?

In the previous week, BlackRock Latin American had 1 more articles in the media than Fidelity Asian Values. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BlackRock Latin American and 1 mentions for Fidelity Asian Values. Fidelity Asian Values' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled BlackRock Latin American'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Fidelity Asian Values	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
BlackRock Latin American	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

BlackRock Latin American beats Fidelity Asian Values on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.