GCP Asset Backed Income (GABI) Competitors

GCP Asset Backed Income (LON:GABI) and BlackRock Greater Europe (LON:BRGE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, institutional ownership, community ranking, dividends, media sentiment and earnings.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer GABI or BRGE?

BlackRock Greater Europe received 6 more outperform votes than GCP Asset Backed Income when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.16% of users gave BlackRock Greater Europe an outperform vote while only 66.67% of users gave GCP Asset Backed Income an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
GCP Asset Backed Income	Outperform Votes 64 66.67%	Underperform Votes 32 33.33%
BlackRock Greater Europe	Outperform Votes 70 72.16%	Underperform Votes 27 27.84%

Is GABI or BRGE more profitable?

BlackRock Greater Europe has a net margin of 90.71% compared to GCP Asset Backed Income's net margin of 63.69%. BlackRock Greater Europe's return on equity of 14.06% beat GCP Asset Backed Income's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
GCP Asset Backed Income	63.69%	3.75%	3.11%
BlackRock Greater Europe	90.71%	14.06%	10.60%

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of GABI or BRGE?

65.6% of GCP Asset Backed Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 9.4% of BlackRock Greater Europe shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.8% of GCP Asset Backed Income shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.4% of BlackRock Greater Europe shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is GABI or BRGE a better dividend stock?

GCP Asset Backed Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%. BlackRock Greater Europe pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. GCP Asset Backed Income pays out 206.9% 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 Greater Europe pays out 7.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Which has more risk and volatility, GABI or BRGE?

GCP Asset Backed Income has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Greater Europe has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, GABI or BRGE?

BlackRock Greater Europe has higher revenue and earnings than GCP Asset Backed Income. BlackRock Greater Europe is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than GCP Asset Backed Income, 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
GCP Asset Backed Income	£9.82M	14.29	£6.26M	£2.90	22.45
BlackRock Greater Europe	£98.57M	5.25	£89.41M	£91.38	5.80

Does the media prefer GABI or BRGE?

In the previous week, BlackRock Greater Europe had 1 more articles in the media than GCP Asset Backed Income. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BlackRock Greater Europe and 0 mentions for GCP Asset Backed Income. BlackRock Greater Europe's average media sentiment score of 1.52 beat GCP Asset Backed Income's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock Greater Europe is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
GCP Asset Backed Income	Neutral
BlackRock Greater Europe	Very Positive

Summary

BlackRock Greater Europe beats GCP Asset Backed Income on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.