ARR vs. BGSC, PRSR, GROW, DX, PINE, SOHO, MGP, ADVT, WPC, and LMI
Should you be buying Aurora Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Aurora Investment Trust include BMO Global Smaller Companies (BGSC), Prs Reit (PRSR), Molten Ventures (GROW), DX (Group) (DX), Pinewood Technologies Group (PINE), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), Medica Group (MGP), AdvancedAdvT (ADVT), Witan Pacific Investment Trust PLC (WPC.L) (WPC), and Lonmin (LMI). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.
Aurora Investment Trust vs.
Aurora Investment Trust (LON:ARR) and BMO Global Smaller Companies (LON:BGSC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, risk and analyst recommendations.
66.8% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Aurora Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Aurora Investment Trust pays out 6.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays out 0.0% 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.
Aurora Investment Trust received 86 more outperform votes than BMO Global Smaller Companies when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.63% of users gave Aurora Investment Trust an outperform vote while only 68.18% of users gave BMO Global Smaller Companies an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Aurora Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled BMO Global Smaller Companies'average media sentiment score.
Aurora Investment Trust has a net margin of 90.50% compared to BMO Global Smaller Companies' net margin of 0.00%. Aurora Investment Trust's return on equity of 16.37% beat BMO Global Smaller Companies' return on equity.
Aurora Investment Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than BMO Global Smaller Companies. BMO Global Smaller Companies is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Aurora Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Aurora Investment Trust beats BMO Global Smaller Companies on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:ARR) was last updated on 5/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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