REC vs. AAEV, WKOF, AATG, AADV, CYN, NTN, ATS, RIII, NTV, and BGCG
Should you be buying Record stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Record include Albion Enterprise VCT (AAEV), Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF), Albion Technology & Gen VCT (AATG), Albion Development VCT (AADV), CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (CYN), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Rights & Issues Investment Trust (RIII), Northern 2 VCT (NTV), and Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust (BGCG). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Record (LON:REC) and Albion Enterprise VCT (LON:AAEV) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, community ranking, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, dividends and analyst recommendations.
20.5% of Record shares are owned by institutional investors. 62.4% of Record 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, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Record has higher revenue and earnings than Albion Enterprise VCT. Record 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.
Albion Enterprise VCT has a net margin of 34.61% compared to Record's net margin of 22.35%. Record's return on equity of 34.94% beat Albion Enterprise VCT's return on equity.
In the previous week, Record had 103 more articles in the media than Albion Enterprise VCT. MarketBeat recorded 103 mentions for Record and 0 mentions for Albion Enterprise VCT. Record's average media sentiment score of 0.06 beat Albion Enterprise VCT's score of 0.00 indicating that Record is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Record received 115 more outperform votes than Albion Enterprise VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.15% of users gave Record an outperform vote while only 64.42% of users gave Albion Enterprise VCT an outperform vote.
Record pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.9%. Albion Enterprise VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Record 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. 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. Record is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Record has a beta of 1.11, meaning that its share price is 11% more 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.
Summary
Record beats Albion Enterprise VCT on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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