DUKE vs. KPC, MGCI, VSL, MAJE, BSC, DORE, AMAT, BGCG, IPU, and CYN
Should you be buying Duke Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duke Capital include Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust (KPC), M&G Credit Income Investment (MGCI), VPC Specialty Lending Investments (VSL), Majedie Investments (MAJE), British Smaller Companies VCT2 (BSC), Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust (BGCG), Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller (IPU), and CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (CYN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust (LON:KPC) and Duke Capital (LON:DUKE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Duke Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Duke Capital pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Duke Capital had 13 more articles in the media than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Duke Capital and 1 mentions for Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust. Duke Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.60 beat Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust's score of 0.16 indicating that Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
41.1% of Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.0% of Duke Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.2% of Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Duke Capital shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust has a net margin of 83.22% compared to Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust's net margin of 49.94%. Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust's return on equity of 7.93% beat Duke Capital's return on equity.
Duke Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust. Duke Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Duke Capital has a consensus target price of GBX 55, suggesting a potential upside of 73.23%. Given Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Duke Capital is more favorable than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust.
Duke Capital received 108 more outperform votes than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duke Capital has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Duke Capital beats Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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