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BlackRock Income Trust (BKT) Competitors

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$11.53 -0.04 (-0.35%)
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BKT vs. AWF, CGBD, HQH, PHK, ECC, CCAP, BTO, NXP, PDT, and MUJ

Should you be buying BlackRock Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of BlackRock Income Trust include AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), Eagle Point Credit (ECC), Crescent Capital BDC (CCAP), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (PDT), and BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

BlackRock Income Trust vs.

AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (NYSE:AWF) and BlackRock Income Trust (NYSE:BKT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, community ranking and profitability.

AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Income Trust has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.

39.4% of BlackRock Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund shares are owned by 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund$152.17M6.05N/AN/AN/A
BlackRock Income Trust$8.67M28.35N/AN/AN/A

AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund received 29 more outperform votes than BlackRock Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.38% of users gave AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund an outperform vote while only 58.43% of users gave BlackRock Income Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AllianceBernstein Global High Income FundOutperform Votes
126
67.38%
Underperform Votes
61
32.62%
BlackRock Income TrustOutperform Votes
97
58.43%
Underperform Votes
69
41.57%

In the previous week, BlackRock Income Trust had 1 more articles in the media than AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BlackRock Income Trust and 1 mentions for AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund. BlackRock Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund's score of 1.16 indicating that BlackRock Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
BlackRock Income Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
AllianceBernstein Global High Income FundN/A N/A N/A
BlackRock Income Trust N/A N/A N/A

AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.79 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%. BlackRock Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.06 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%.

Summary

AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund and BlackRock Income Trust tied by winning 5 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BKT vs. The Competition

MetricBlackRock Income TrustInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$245.68M$8.45B$11.51B$19.47B
Dividend Yield9.15%6.81%5.72%3.67%
P/E RatioN/A0.4425.0640.26
Price / Sales28.3514.6827.6320.08
Price / CashN/A7.0318.6121.28
Price / BookN/A0.902.595.51
Net IncomeN/A$73.96M$1.04B$992.21M
7 Day Performance0.09%0.96%0.46%4.50%
1 Month Performance-4.97%-3.78%-3.46%0.08%
1 Year Performance-5.18%4.37%12.52%16.56%

BlackRock Income Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BKT
BlackRock Income Trust
N/A$11.53
-0.3%
N/A-4.8%$245.68M$8.67M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
Positive News
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$10.72
-0.4%
N/A+5.6%$924.39M$152.17M0.00N/APositive News
CGBD
Carlyle Secured Lending
1.6618 of 5 stars
$18.10
-0.6%
$16.67
-7.9%
+15.7%$921.40M$107.43M10.11N/APositive News
HQH
Abrdn Healthcare Investors
N/A$16.51
-0.2%
N/A-3.0%$835.82M$186.46M0.00147,000
PHK
PIMCO High Income Fund
N/A$4.95
+0.4%
N/A-0.6%$723.33M$92.95M0.00147,000Dividend Announcement
ECC
Eagle Point Credit
3.501 of 5 stars
$9.13
-0.1%
$10.00
+9.5%
-6.5%$702.54M$130.04M11.41N/AAnalyst Forecast
CCAP
Crescent Capital BDC
2.269 of 5 stars
$18.94
-1.8%
$19.17
+1.2%
+10.1%$701.95M$104.15M7.43N/ADividend Increase
Positive News
BTO
John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund
N/A$35.20
-0.6%
N/A+15.1%$694.92M$132.65M0.002,719
NXP
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio
N/A$14.84
-0.6%
N/A-0.3%$694.74M$75.19M0.0040,400Dividend Announcement
Negative News
PDT
John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund
N/A$12.72
-0.7%
N/A+16.5%$625.63M$198.30M0.00147,000Dividend Announcement
MUJ
BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund
N/A$11.26
-0.3%
N/A-2.4%$607.88M$29.93M0.00N/ADividend Announcement

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