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BLE vs CET

Side-by-side comparison of BlackRock Municipal Income Trust II (BLE) and Central Securities Corporation (CET): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both BLE and CET operate in Finance/Investors Services (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CET is the larger of the two at $12.75B, about 19.0x BLE ($671.1M).
  • Over the past year, BLE is up 6.3% and CET is up 13.7% - CET leads by 7.4 points.
  • CET has hit the wire 2 times in the past 4 weeks while BLE has been quiet.
PerformanceBLE+6.26%CET+3.12%
2025-06-03+0.00%2026-02-06
MetricBLECET
Company
BlackRock Municipal Income Trust II
Central Securities Corporation
Price
$10.53-0.19%
$52.60-0.83%
Market cap
$671.1M
$12.75B
1M return
+0.77%
-1.06%
1Y return
+6.26%
+13.66%
Industry
Finance/Investors Services
Finance/Investors Services
Exchange
NYSE
AMEX
IPO
2002
1951
News (4w)
0
2
Recent ratings
0
0
BLE

BlackRock Municipal Income Trust II

BlackRock Municipal Income Trust II is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched by BlackRock, Inc. It is managed by BlackRock Advisors, LLC. The fund invests in fixed income markets. It primarily invests long-term and short-term investments, and money market funds. The fund primarily in investment grade municipal bonds that are exempt from regular federal income tax. BlackRock Municipal Income Trust II was formed on July 30, 2002 and is domiciled in United States.

CET

Central Securities Corporation

Central Securities Corp. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It also invests on bonds, convertible bonds, preferred stocks, convertible preferred stocks, warrants, options real estate, or short-term obligations of governments, banks and corporations. Central Securities Corp. was founded on October 1, 1929 and is based in New York, New York.

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