WTAN vs. FEV, PIN, MYI, QLT, RAT, PNL, JTC, TEM, JAM, and HVPE
Should you be buying Witan Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Witan Investment Trust include Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Pantheon International (PIN), Murray International (MYI), Quilter (QLT), Rathbones Group (RAT), Personal Assets Trust (PNL), JTC (JTC), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), JPMorgan American (JAM), and HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Witan Investment Trust (LON:WTAN) and Fidelity European Trust (LON:FEV) 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 community ranking, dividends, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability and risk.
7.2% of Witan Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.2% of Fidelity European Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 8.0% of Witan Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.8% of Fidelity European Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Witan Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fidelity European Trust has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Witan Investment Trust received 32 more outperform votes than Fidelity European Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.63% of users gave Witan Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 65.26% of users gave Fidelity European Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Witan Investment Trust had 4 more articles in the media than Fidelity European Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Witan Investment Trust and 1 mentions for Fidelity European Trust. Fidelity European Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Witan Investment Trust's score of 0.45 indicating that Fidelity European Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Witan Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Fidelity European Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Witan Investment Trust pays out 2,142.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Fidelity European Trust pays out 1,379.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Fidelity European Trust has a net margin of 90.56% compared to Witan Investment Trust's net margin of 87.27%. Fidelity European Trust's return on equity of 16.08% beat Witan Investment Trust's return on equity.
Fidelity European Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Witan Investment Trust. Fidelity European Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Witan Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Fidelity European Trust beats Witan Investment Trust on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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