RIII vs. ATS, NTN, BRLA, WKOF, AAEV, AADV, NTV, AATG, REC, and OOA
Should you be buying Rights & Issues Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rights & Issues Investment Trust include Artemis Alpha Trust (ATS), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (BRLA), Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF), Albion Enterprise VCT (AAEV), Albion Development VCT (AADV), Northern 2 VCT (NTV), Albion Technology & Gen VCT (AATG), Record (REC), and Octopus AIM VCT (OOA). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust (LON:RIII) and Artemis Alpha Trust (LON:ATS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership and community ranking.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Artemis Alpha Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays out 7,049.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Artemis Alpha Trust pays out 3,529.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Artemis Alpha Trust has a beta of 1.29, indicating that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Artemis Alpha Trust received 31 more outperform votes than Rights & Issues Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.92% of users gave Rights & Issues Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 58.77% of users gave Artemis Alpha Trust an outperform vote.
18.5% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.7% of Artemis Alpha Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 31.3% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.0% of Artemis Alpha Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Artemis Alpha Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Rights & Issues Investment Trust. Artemis Alpha Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rights & Issues Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Rights & Issues Investment Trust had 18 more articles in the media than Artemis Alpha Trust. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Rights & Issues Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Artemis Alpha Trust. Artemis Alpha Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Rights & Issues Investment Trust's score of -0.01 indicating that Artemis Alpha Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a net margin of 74.94% compared to Artemis Alpha Trust's net margin of 71.79%. Artemis Alpha Trust's return on equity of 5.68% beat Rights & Issues Investment Trust's return on equity.
Summary
Artemis Alpha Trust beats Rights & Issues Investment Trust on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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