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Aurora Investment Trust (ARR) Competitors

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GBX 256 +3.00 (+1.19%)
As of 08/22/2025 12:32 PM Eastern

ARR vs. BGSC, GROW, PRSR, PINE, ADVT, DX, SAGA, SOHO, MGP, and WPC

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), Molten Ventures (GROW), Prs Reit (PRSR), Pinewood Technologies Group (PINE), AdvancedAdvT (ADVT), DX (Group) (DX), Saga (SAGA), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), Medica Group (MGP), and Witan Pacific Investment Trust PLC (WPC.L) (WPC). These companies are all part of the "trading" industry.

Aurora Investment Trust vs. Its Competitors

BMO Global Smaller Companies (LON:BGSC) and Aurora Investment Trust (LON:ARR) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and valuation.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BMO Global Smaller CompaniesN/A N/A N/A
Aurora Investment Trust 90.50%16.37%18.36%

66.8% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Aurora Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BMO Global Smaller Companies£303.85M0.00N/A£50.70N/A
Aurora Investment Trust£55.59M5.21£50.31M£45.045.68

BMO Global Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. 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 out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aurora Investment Trust pays out 6.7% 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.

In the previous week, Aurora Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than BMO Global Smaller Companies. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Aurora Investment Trust and 0 mentions for BMO Global Smaller Companies. Aurora Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat BMO Global Smaller Companies' score of 0.00 indicating that Aurora Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
BMO Global Smaller Companies Neutral
Aurora Investment Trust Very Positive

Summary

Aurora Investment Trust beats BMO Global Smaller Companies on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ARR vs. The Competition

MetricAurora Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£289.61M£1.31B£6.49B£3.22B
Dividend Yield2.74%4.39%4.17%5.04%
P/E Ratio5.6822.7214.41164.70
Price / Sales5.212,489.741,803.55310,111.42
Price / Cash27.1160.62127.2427.93
Price / Book0.951.425.135.91
Net Income£50.31M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance1.19%0.57%0.88%49.51%
1 Month Performance1.59%0.96%2.15%56.91%
1 Year Performance-3.76%6.88%24.63%140.38%

Aurora Investment Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ARR
Aurora Investment Trust
N/AGBX 256
+1.2%
N/A-3.8%£289.61M£55.59M5.68N/ANews Coverage
BGSC
BMO Global Smaller Companies
N/AN/AN/AN/A£769.56M£303.85M2.77N/A
GROW
Molten Ventures
1.619 of 5 stars
GBX 366.60
+1.6%
GBX 580
+58.2%
-11.7%£682.27M£9.10M-20.5020
PRSR
Prs Reit
3.5624 of 5 stars
GBX 104
-0.4%
GBX 120
+15.4%
+16.2%£569.20M£58.11M6.082News Coverage
PINE
Pinewood Technologies Group
2.3027 of 5 stars
GBX 520.48
-0.1%
GBX 590
+13.4%
+49.1%£433.21M£26.97M9.525,334
ADVT
AdvancedAdvT
N/AGBX 198
-0.5%
N/A+52.2%£314.42MN/A219.57209
DX
DX (Group)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£306.77M£471.20M1,185.0020
SAGA
Saga
N/AGBX 215.50
+4.9%
N/A+109.7%£299.50M£799.48M-2.023,682Trending News
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SOHO
Triple Point Social Housing REIT
N/AGBX 66.60
-0.6%
N/A+9.5%£265.60M£41.36M10.3510News Coverage
MGP
Medica Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£259.85M£76.98M3,516.671,212
WPC
Witan Pacific Investment Trust PLC (WPC.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£242.69M£6.74M69.65190

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This page (LON:ARR) was last updated on 8/24/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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