APEO vs. OTV2, MRCH, GSCT, SAIN, SDP, MUT, ICGT, BBH, BBGI, and TMPL
Should you be buying abrdn Private Equity Opportunities stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities include Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2), Merchants Trust (MRCH), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), Murray Income Trust (MUT), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), and Temple Bar (TMPL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Octopus Titan VCT (LON:OTV2) and abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (LON:APEO) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.
Octopus Titan VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. Octopus Titan VCT pays out -2,105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. abrdn Private Equity Opportunities pays out 4,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Octopus Titan VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
0.1% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.7% of abrdn Private Equity Opportunities shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus Titan VCT. Octopus Titan VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than abrdn Private Equity Opportunities, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Octopus Titan VCT received 29 more outperform votes than abrdn Private Equity Opportunities when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Octopus Titan VCT had 1 more articles in the media than abrdn Private Equity Opportunities. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Octopus Titan VCT and 1 mentions for abrdn Private Equity Opportunities. Octopus Titan VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat abrdn Private Equity Opportunities' score of -0.52 indicating that abrdn Private Equity Opportunities is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Octopus Titan VCT has a beta of -0.09, suggesting that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has a beta of 0.78, suggesting that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities has a net margin of 76.01% compared to abrdn Private Equity Opportunities' net margin of 0.00%. Octopus Titan VCT's return on equity of 5.18% beat abrdn Private Equity Opportunities' return on equity.
Summary
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities beats Octopus Titan VCT on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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