OTV2 vs. ATST, UKW, 3IN, EMG, ABDN, STJ, JGGI, RCP, MNKS, and HICL
Should you be buying Octopus Titan VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Octopus Titan VCT include Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), Man Group (EMG), abrdn (ABDN), St. James's Place (STJ), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Monks (MNKS), and HICL Infrastructure (HICL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Octopus Titan VCT (LON:OTV2) and Alliance Trust (LON:ATST) are both financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, risk and profitability.
Alliance Trust received 81 more outperform votes than Octopus Titan VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 73.33% of users gave Alliance Trust an outperform vote while only 67.44% of users gave Octopus Titan VCT an outperform vote.
Octopus Titan VCT has a beta of -0.09, indicating that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alliance Trust has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its share price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alliance Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus Titan VCT. Octopus Titan VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alliance Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Octopus Titan VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Alliance Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. Octopus Titan VCT pays out -2,105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alliance Trust pays out 1,244.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Octopus Titan VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
0.1% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.5% of Alliance Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.2% of Alliance Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Octopus Titan VCT and Octopus Titan VCT both had 2 articles in the media. Alliance Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Octopus Titan VCT's score of -0.81 indicating that Alliance Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alliance Trust has a net margin of 92.26% compared to Octopus Titan VCT's net margin of 0.00%. Alliance Trust's return on equity of 19.25% beat Octopus Titan VCT's return on equity.
Summary
Alliance Trust beats Octopus Titan VCT on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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