ARR vs. BGSC, GROW, PRSR, PINE, SAGA, DX, SOHO, MGP, ADVT, 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), Saga (SAGA), DX (Group) (DX), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), Medica Group (MGP), AdvancedAdvT (ADVT), 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 investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, risk, profitability and dividends.
BMO Global Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Aurora Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.03 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. BMO Global Smaller Companies pays out 0.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aurora Investment Trust pays out 18.5% 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 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.
21.5% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
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.
Summary
Aurora Investment Trust beats BMO Global Smaller Companies on 9 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:ARR) was last updated on 10/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
