Albion Enterprise VCT (AAEV) Competitors

Albion Enterprise VCT (LON:AAEV) and TR Property Investment Trust (LON:TRY) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking and earnings.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, AAEV or TRY?

TR Property Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Albion Enterprise VCT. Albion Enterprise VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than TR Property Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Albion Enterprise VCT	£14.60M	16.45	£252.09M	£112.32	0.95
TR Property Investment Trust	£311.14M	3.27	£284.71M	£89.42	3.58

Is AAEV or TRY a better dividend stock?

Albion Enterprise VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.6%. TR Property Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 15 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. Albion Enterprise VCT pays out 5.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TR Property Investment Trust pays out 16.8% 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. Albion Enterprise VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is AAEV or TRY more profitable?

Albion Enterprise VCT has a net margin of 1,726.26% compared to TR Property Investment Trust's net margin of 91.50%. Albion Enterprise VCT's return on equity of 85.97% beat TR Property Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Albion Enterprise VCT	1,726.26%	85.97%	0.86%
TR Property Investment Trust	91.50%	24.54%	-24.58%

Which has more volatility & risk, AAEV or TRY?

Albion Enterprise VCT has a beta of 0.03, meaning that its stock price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, TR Property Investment Trust has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to AAEV or TRY?

In the previous week, Albion Enterprise VCT and Albion Enterprise VCT both had 1 articles in the media. TR Property Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.68 beat Albion Enterprise VCT's score of 0.75 indicating that TR Property Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Albion Enterprise VCT	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
TR Property Investment Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer AAEV or TRY?

TR Property Investment Trust received 53 more outperform votes than Albion Enterprise VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.18% of users gave TR Property Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 64.42% of users gave Albion Enterprise VCT an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Albion Enterprise VCT	Outperform Votes 67 64.42%	Underperform Votes 37 35.58%
TR Property Investment Trust	Outperform Votes 120 68.18%	Underperform Votes 56 31.82%

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in AAEV or TRY?

45.6% of TR Property Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Albion Enterprise VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of TR Property Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

TR Property Investment Trust beats Albion Enterprise VCT on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.