ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LBOW) Competitors

ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LON:LBOW) and BlackRock Latin American (LON:BRLA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, dividends, community ranking, analyst recommendations and risk.

Is LBOW or BRLA a better dividend stock?

ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 20.0%. BlackRock Latin American pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments pays out 8,000.0% 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 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.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in LBOW or BRLA?

BlackRock Latin American received 21 more outperform votes than ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.61% of users gave BlackRock Latin American an outperform vote while only 63.56% of users gave ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	Outperform Votes 75 63.56%	Underperform Votes 43 36.44%
BlackRock Latin American	Outperform Votes 96 67.61%	Underperform Votes 46 32.39%

Do analysts prefer LBOW or BRLA?

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A
BlackRock Latin American	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	N/A

Does the media refer more to LBOW or BRLA?

In the previous week, ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled BlackRock Latin American'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	Neutral
BlackRock Latin American	Neutral

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of LBOW or BRLA?

73.6% of ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.8% of BlackRock Latin American shares are owned by institutional investors. 20.7% of ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of BlackRock Latin American 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 LBOW or BRLA more profitable?

BlackRock Latin American has a net margin of 94.22% compared to ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' net margin of 0.00%. BlackRock Latin American's return on equity of 31.62% beat ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	N/A	N/A	N/A
BlackRock Latin American	94.22%	31.62%	19.32%

Which has better valuation & earnings, LBOW or BRLA?

BlackRock Latin American has higher revenue and earnings than ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments. BlackRock Latin American is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments, 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
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	N/A	N/A	N/A	£0.05	401.00
BlackRock Latin American	£56.68M	1.61	£53.41M	£1.43	216.08

Summary

BlackRock Latin American beats ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.