BlackRock ESG Capital Allocation Term Trust (ECAT)
Financial Services · NYQ · US
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
BlackRock ESG Capital Allocation Term Trust trades at USD15.31, which is 19% below the USD18.19 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a DCF is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 9 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 7.3 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
ECAT passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
1 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$1.34M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is BlackRock ESG Capital Allocation Term Trust (ECAT) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of USD18.19, ECAT at USD15.31 is 19% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
Which funds own ECAT?
1 of the institutions we track reported a position in ECAT in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is ECAT's P/E ratio?
ECAT trades at 7.3 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.