ARR vs. BGSC, GROW, PINE, PRSR, DX, SAGA, SOHO, ADVT, 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), Pinewood Technologies Group (PINE), Prs Reit (PRSR), DX (Group) (DX), Saga (SAGA), Triple Point Social Housing REIT (SOHO), AdvancedAdvT (ADVT), 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 better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.
21.5% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Aurora Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BMO Global Smaller Companies' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Aurora Investment Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Aurora Investment Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than BMO Global Smaller Companies. Aurora Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BMO Global Smaller Companies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
BMO Global Smaller Companies pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share. Aurora Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.06 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 -48.0% 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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.
Summary
Aurora Investment Trust beats BMO Global Smaller Companies on 7 of the 10 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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This page (LON:ARR) was last updated on 9/13/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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