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Firsthand Technology Value Fund (SVVC) Competitors

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$0.10 +0.03 (+45.45%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

SVVC vs. BLK, BK, AMP, STT, TROW, NTRS, ARCC, BEN, SEIC, and IVZ

Should you be buying Firsthand Technology Value Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Firsthand Technology Value Fund include BlackRock (BLK), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), Ameriprise Financial (AMP), State Street (STT), T. Rowe Price Group (TROW), Northern Trust (NTRS), Ares Capital (ARCC), Franklin Resources (BEN), SEI Investments (SEIC), and Invesco (IVZ). These companies are all part of the "asset management & custody banks" industry.

Firsthand Technology Value Fund vs.

Firsthand Technology Value Fund (NASDAQ:SVVC) and BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) are both finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, community ranking and earnings.

BlackRock has higher revenue and earnings than Firsthand Technology Value Fund. Firsthand Technology Value Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BlackRock, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Firsthand Technology Value Fund$120K5.51-$29.35M$0.120.80
BlackRock$17.86B8.99$5.50B$40.5225.58

Firsthand Technology Value Fund has a beta of 1.37, indicating that its share price is 37% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock has a beta of 1.3, indicating that its share price is 30% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, BlackRock had 73 more articles in the media than Firsthand Technology Value Fund. MarketBeat recorded 73 mentions for BlackRock and 0 mentions for Firsthand Technology Value Fund. BlackRock's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat Firsthand Technology Value Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that BlackRock is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Firsthand Technology Value Fund Neutral
BlackRock Positive

BlackRock has a consensus target price of $1,019.62, suggesting a potential downside of 1.63%. Given BlackRock's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe BlackRock is more favorable than Firsthand Technology Value Fund.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Firsthand Technology Value Fund
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
BlackRock
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.85

Firsthand Technology Value Fund has a net margin of 653.79% compared to BlackRock's net margin of 31.37%. Firsthand Technology Value Fund's return on equity of 200.81% beat BlackRock's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Firsthand Technology Value Fund653.79% 200.81% 37.32%
BlackRock 31.37%15.52%4.98%

BlackRock received 979 more outperform votes than Firsthand Technology Value Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.62% of users gave BlackRock an outperform vote while only 45.16% of users gave Firsthand Technology Value Fund an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Firsthand Technology Value FundOutperform Votes
140
45.16%
Underperform Votes
170
54.84%
BlackRockOutperform Votes
1119
72.62%
Underperform Votes
422
27.38%

52.7% of Firsthand Technology Value Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.7% of BlackRock shares are owned by institutional investors. 9.3% of Firsthand Technology Value Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.9% of BlackRock shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

BlackRock beats Firsthand Technology Value Fund on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SVVC vs. The Competition

MetricFirsthand Technology Value FundInvestors IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$661,000.00$1.13B$11.11B$8.85B
Dividend YieldN/A11.20%6.25%4.08%
P/E Ratio0.808.9339.1614.95
Price / Sales5.518.29229.0487.31
Price / Cash0.4513.3318.3636.92
Price / Book0.440.894.296.55
Net Income-$29.35M$108.10M$1.02B$226.22M
7 Day PerformanceN/A0.04%1.34%3.77%
1 Month PerformanceN/A3.45%4.29%4.64%
1 Year PerformanceN/A-1.69%26.74%29.21%

Firsthand Technology Value Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SVVC
Firsthand Technology Value Fund
N/A$0.10
+45.5%
N/A-63.1%$661,000.00$120,000.000.8024Gap Down
High Trading Volume
BLK
BlackRock
4.5998 of 5 stars
$1,036.46
+0.8%
$1,019.62
-1.6%
+42.5%$160.53B$17.86B25.5819,800Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
BK
Bank of New York Mellon
4.9455 of 5 stars
$80.14
+1.6%
$77.23
-3.6%
+69.7%$58.27B$33.81B17.4253,400Analyst Upgrade
News Coverage
Positive News
AMP
Ameriprise Financial
4.9014 of 5 stars
$572.07
+0.3%
$487.67
-14.8%
+63.2%$55.50B$15.54B21.9613,800Analyst Revision
Positive News
STT
State Street
4.7792 of 5 stars
$97.50
+1.2%
$92.11
-5.5%
+39.5%$28.58B$18.37B15.4046,000Analyst Downgrade
TROW
T. Rowe Price Group
4.7726 of 5 stars
$119.84
+1.4%
$115.55
-3.6%
+22.6%$26.62B$6.46B13.117,906Positive News
NTRS
Northern Trust
3.8938 of 5 stars
$109.46
+0.5%
$100.67
-8.0%
+43.7%$21.70B$12.12B13.6123,100News Coverage
Positive News
ARCC
Ares Capital
1.3348 of 5 stars
$22.02
+1.1%
$21.86
-0.7%
+11.0%$14.23B$2.61B8.472,550Options Volume
Positive News
BEN
Franklin Resources
4.6687 of 5 stars
$21.96
+1.1%
$20.20
-8.0%
-8.0%$11.50B$8.48B25.5310,200
SEIC
SEI Investments
4.6196 of 5 stars
$80.82
+0.8%
$77.50
-4.1%
+40.0%$10.42B$1.92B19.525,089
IVZ
Invesco
4.343 of 5 stars
$17.74
+0.3%
$18.63
+5.0%
+28.1%$7.97B$5.89B-19.288,500

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This page (NASDAQ:SVVC) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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