CRWN vs. NSI, ARTL, MIGO, MHN, VIP, HAN, TV1, MAV4, MIX, and HOT
Should you be buying Crown Place VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Crown Place VCT include New Star Investment Trust (NSI), Alpha Real Trust (ARTL), MIGO Opportunities Trust (MIGO), Menhaden Resource Efficiency (MHN), Value and Indexed Property Income Trust (VIP), Hansa Investment (HAN), Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), Maven Income & Growth VCT 4 (MAV4), Mobeus Income & Growth VCT (MIX), and Henderson Opportunities (HOT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Crown Place VCT (LON:CRWN) and New Star Investment Trust (LON:NSI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, earnings and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, New Star Investment Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Crown Place VCT. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for New Star Investment Trust and 1 mentions for Crown Place VCT. Crown Place VCT's average media sentiment score of 1.38 beat New Star Investment Trust's score of 0.40 indicating that Crown Place VCT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Crown Place VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. New Star Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Crown Place VCT 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. New Star Investment Trust pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
0.9% of Crown Place VCT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.3% of New Star Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Crown Place VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 76.1% of New Star Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
New Star Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Crown Place VCT. New Star Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Crown Place VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Crown Place VCT has a beta of 0.09, suggesting that its share price is 91% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Star Investment Trust has a beta of 0.3, suggesting that its share price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Crown Place VCT received 69 more outperform votes than New Star Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.91% of users gave Crown Place VCT an outperform vote while only 54.55% of users gave New Star Investment Trust an outperform vote.
New Star Investment Trust has a net margin of 68.60% compared to Crown Place VCT's net margin of 50.52%. New Star Investment Trust's return on equity of 2.60% beat Crown Place VCT's return on equity.
Summary
New Star Investment Trust beats Crown Place VCT on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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