ARTL vs. VIP, MIGO, CRWN, NSI, MHN, MIX, TV1, MAV4, CHI, and UTL
Should you be buying Alpha Real Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Real Trust include Value and Indexed Property Income Trust (VIP), MIGO Opportunities Trust (MIGO), Crown Place VCT (CRWN), New Star Investment Trust (NSI), Menhaden Resource Efficiency (MHN), Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (MIX), Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), Maven Income & Growth VCT 4 (MAV4), CT UK High Income Trust (CHI), and UIL (UTL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Value and Indexed Property Income Trust (LON:VIP) and Alpha Real Trust (LON:ARTL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking and earnings.
Value and Indexed Property Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Alpha Real Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Value and Indexed Property Income Trust pays out -2,407.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alpha Real Trust pays out 20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Value and Indexed Property Income Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Alpha Real Trust has a net margin of 15.11% compared to Alpha Real Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Value and Indexed Property Income Trust's return on equity of 1.03% beat Alpha Real Trust's return on equity.
Alpha Real Trust received 9 more outperform votes than Value and Indexed Property Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.67% of users gave Alpha Real Trust an outperform vote while only 57.71% of users gave Value and Indexed Property Income Trust an outperform vote.
3.2% of Value and Indexed Property Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.3% of Alpha Real Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 56.1% of Value and Indexed Property Income Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 87.2% of Alpha Real Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Alpha Real Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Value and Indexed Property Income Trust. Value and Indexed Property Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Real Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Alpha Real Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Value and Indexed Property Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Alpha Real Trust and 1 mentions for Value and Indexed Property Income Trust. Alpha Real Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.76 beat Value and Indexed Property Income Trust's score of 0.85 indicating that Value and Indexed Property Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Value and Indexed Property Income Trust has a beta of 1.02, suggesting that its share price is 2% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpha Real Trust has a beta of 0.37, suggesting that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Alpha Real Trust beats Value and Indexed Property Income Trust on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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