We are contrasting BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust (NYSE:BHV) and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. (NYSE:WDR) on their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation. They both are Asset Management companies, competing one another.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust	1.77M	14.48	N/A	-0.01	0.00
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	1.16B	1.14	183.59M	2.20	8.35

In table 1 we can see BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

Profitability

Table 2 provides us the net margins, return on equity and return on assets of both businesses.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust	0.00%	0%	0%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	15.83%	20.7%	14.1%

Dividends

BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust shareholders receive an annual dividend of $0.76 per share which is subject to 4.7% dividend yield. Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. offers an annual dividend of $1 per share, bundled with 5.78% dividend yield.

Analyst Ratings

The table delivered features the ratings and recommendations for BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust	0	0	0	0.00
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	1	0	0	1.00

Competitively Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. has a consensus target price of $18, with potential upside of 3.87%.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

The shares of both BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust and Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. are owned by institutional investors at 2.94% and 0% respectively. Insiders owned roughly 0.19% of BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust’s shares. Competitively, 2.1% are Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.’s share owned by insiders.

Performance

Here are the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust	0.55%	3.74%	-9.44%	-4.46%	-3.24%	3.64%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	0.6%	7.3%	-9.06%	-9.91%	-7.46%	1.6%

For the past year BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust was more bullish than Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.

Summary

Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. beats on 11 of the 13 factors BlackRock Virginia Municipal Bond Trust.

Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides investment management and advisory, investment product underwriting and distribution, and shareholder services administration to mutual funds, and institutional and separately managed accounts in the United States. The company acts as an investment adviser for institutional and other private investors, and provides sub advisory services to other investment companies; and underwrites and distributes registered open-end mutual fund portfolios. It also offers fee-based asset allocation investment advisory products to advisors channel customers; distributes business partners’ variable annuity products, and retirement and life insurance products to advisors channel customers; and sells life insurance and disability products underwritten by various carriers. The company distributes investment products through its wholesale channel comprising other broker/dealers, various retirement platforms, and registered investment advisors, as well as through independent financial advisors; and markets investment advisory services to institutional investors directly or through consultants. Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is based in Overland Park, Kansas.