AADV vs. NTV, BRLA, NTN, IVPU, ATS, NVT, HEIT, WKOF, MVCT, and RIII
Should you be buying Albion Development VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Albion Development VCT include Northern 2 VCT (NTV), BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (BRLA), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), Invesco Select UK Equity (IVPU), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Northern Venture Trust (NVT), Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF), Molten Ventures VCT (MVCT), and Rights & Issues Investment Trust (RIII). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Northern 2 VCT (LON:NTV) and Albion Development VCT (LON:AADV) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, profitability, community ranking, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.
Northern 2 VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.5%. Albion Development VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.9%. Northern 2 VCT pays out 15,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Albion Development VCT pays out 25,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Albion Development VCT received 38 more outperform votes than Northern 2 VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.43% of users gave Albion Development VCT an outperform vote while only 63.95% of users gave Northern 2 VCT an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Albion Development VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Northern 2 VCT'saverage media sentiment score.
Albion Development VCT has higher revenue and earnings than Northern 2 VCT. Northern 2 VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Albion Development VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Northern 2 VCT has a net margin of 54.70% compared to Northern 2 VCT's net margin of 53.80%. Northern 2 VCT's return on equity of 2.89% beat Albion Development VCT's return on equity.
Northern 2 VCT has a beta of 0.19, meaning that its share price is 81% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Albion Development VCT has a beta of 0.04, meaning that its share price is 96% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Albion Development VCT beats Northern 2 VCT on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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