HDIV vs. AAEV, HEIT, VSL, AADV, VNH, BMPI, PMI, JPEC, NVT, and KAY
Should you be buying Henderson Diversified Income stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Henderson Diversified Income include Albion Enterprise VCT (AAEV), Harmony Energy Income Trust (HEIT), VPC Specialty Lending Investments (VSL), Albion Development VCT (AADV), VietNam (VNH), BMO Managed Portfolio Trust PLC - Income Shares (BMPI), Premier Miton Group (PMI), JPMorgan Elect plc - Managed Cash (JPEC), Northern Venture Trust (NVT), and Kings Arms Yard VCT (KAY). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Henderson Diversified Income (LON:HDIV) and Albion Enterprise VCT (LON:AAEV) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and community ranking.
Albion Enterprise VCT has higher revenue and earnings than Henderson Diversified Income. Henderson Diversified Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Albion Enterprise VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Henderson Diversified Income received 17 more outperform votes than Albion Enterprise VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.42% of users gave Albion Enterprise VCT an outperform vote while only 64.12% of users gave Henderson Diversified Income an outperform vote.
Henderson Diversified Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 24.3%. Albion Enterprise VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Henderson Diversified Income pays out -10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Albion Enterprise VCT pays out 30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Henderson Diversified Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Henderson Diversified Income has a beta of 0.61, meaning that its share price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Albion Enterprise VCT has a beta of 0.03, meaning that its share price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500.
14.8% of Henderson Diversified Income shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.3% of Henderson Diversified Income shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Albion Enterprise VCT shares are owned by company 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.
In the previous week, Henderson Diversified Income's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Albion Enterprise VCT'saverage media sentiment score.
Albion Enterprise VCT has a net margin of 34.61% compared to Henderson Diversified Income's net margin of 0.00%. Albion Enterprise VCT's return on equity of 1.38% beat Henderson Diversified Income's return on equity.
Summary
Albion Enterprise VCT beats Henderson Diversified Income on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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