NCA2 vs. USF, LTI, AMIF, BLU, VELA, TORO, D467, ARGO, IVPM, and SIHL
Should you be buying New Century AIM 2 VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New Century AIM 2 VCT include US Solar Fund (USF), Lindsell Train Investment Trust (LTI), Amicorp FS (AMIF), Blue Star Capital (BLU), Vela Technologies (VELA), Chenavari Toro Income Fund (TORO), Thames Ventures VCT 2 DP67 (D467), Argo Group (ARGO), Invesco Select Liquidity (IVPM), and Symphony International (SIHL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
New Century AIM 2 VCT (LON:NCA2) and US Solar Fund (LON:USF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
New Century AIM 2 VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. US Solar Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1,010.1%. New Century AIM 2 VCT pays out -1,904.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. US Solar Fund pays out -10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. US Solar Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
10.2% of New Century AIM 2 VCT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of US Solar Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.5% of New Century AIM 2 VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of US Solar Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
US Solar Fund has higher revenue and earnings than New Century AIM 2 VCT. New Century AIM 2 VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than US Solar Fund, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, US Solar Fund had 5 more articles in the media than New Century AIM 2 VCT. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for US Solar Fund and 0 mentions for New Century AIM 2 VCT. US Solar Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat New Century AIM 2 VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that US Solar Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New Century AIM 2 VCT received 29 more outperform votes than US Solar Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave US Solar Fund an outperform vote while only 69.77% of users gave New Century AIM 2 VCT an outperform vote.
US Solar Fund's return on equity of 0.00% beat New Century AIM 2 VCT's return on equity.
Summary
US Solar Fund beats New Century AIM 2 VCT on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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