D4G vs. MVI, ASIZ, GV2O, LBOW, and GV1O
Should you be buying Downing FOUR VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Downing FOUR VCT include Marwyn Value Investors (MVI), Aberforth Split Level Income ZDP 2024 (ASIZ), Gresham House Renewable Energy VCT 2 (GV2O), ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LBOW), and Gresham House Renewable Energy VCT 1 (GV1O). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Marwyn Value Investors (LON:MVI) and Downing FOUR VCT (LON:D4G) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, risk, valuation, community ranking, dividends and earnings.
Marwyn Value Investors pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Downing FOUR VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.1%. Marwyn Value Investors pays out 11,250.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Downing FOUR VCT pays out 34.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Marwyn Value Investors has a net margin of 99.93% compared to Marwyn Value Investors' net margin of 0.00%. Downing FOUR VCT's return on equity of 4.78% beat Marwyn Value Investors' return on equity.
Marwyn Value Investors received 58 more outperform votes than Downing FOUR VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.33% of users gave Downing FOUR VCT an outperform vote while only 70.00% of users gave Marwyn Value Investors an outperform vote.
Marwyn Value Investors has higher revenue and earnings than Downing FOUR VCT. Downing FOUR VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marwyn Value Investors, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Marwyn Value Investors had 3 more articles in the media than Downing FOUR VCT. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Marwyn Value Investors and 0 mentions for Downing FOUR VCT. Downing FOUR VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Marwyn Value Investors' score of 0.00 indicating that Marwyn Value Investors is being referred to more favorably in the media.
31.3% of Marwyn Value Investors shares are owned by institutional investors. 45.1% of Marwyn Value Investors shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Marwyn Value Investors beats Downing FOUR VCT on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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