The company, as a secondary objective, also focuses on preservation of capital to the extent consistent with its primary objective of high current income. The Trust seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing in worl-wide portfolio of floating rate securities, including investing a substantial amount in U.S. and non-U.S. senior secured floating rate loans (Senior Loans), made to corporate and other business entities.
We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.
The chart below shows how we grade Blackrock Floating Rate (BGT) across the board compared to its closest peers.
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10.11
Growth measures a stock's combined historical expansion in earnings and revenue across multiple time periods, with emphasis on both long-term trends and recent performance.
27.38
Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.
The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility
Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.
This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.
Blackrock Floating Rate (BGT) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -1.4311 which is considered to be below average compared to the peer average of 0.0000
