ARTL vs. HAN, MHN, GOT, NSI, HOT, CRWN, OSEC, MAV4, TV1, and MIGO
Should you be buying Alpha Real Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alpha Real Trust include Hansa Investment (HAN), Menhaden Resource Efficiency (MHN), Global Opportunities Trust (GOT), New Star Investment Trust (NSI), Henderson Opportunities (HOT), Crown Place VCT (CRWN), Octopus AIM VCT 2 (OSEC), Maven Income & Growth VCT 4 (MAV4), Thames Ventures VCT 1 (TV1), and MIGO Opportunities Trust (MIGO). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Hansa Investment (LON:HAN) and Alpha Real Trust (LON:ARTL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, profitability, valuation, earnings, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
0.9% of Hansa Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.3% of Alpha Real Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 60.2% of Hansa Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 87.2% of Alpha Real Trust shares are held by company 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.
Hansa Investment has a beta of 0.72, meaning that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpha Real Trust has a beta of 0.37, meaning that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Alpha Real Trust received 12 more outperform votes than Hansa Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.67% of users gave Alpha Real Trust an outperform vote while only 66.08% of users gave Hansa Investment an outperform vote.
Hansa Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Alpha Real Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Hansa Investment pays out -3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Alpha Real Trust pays out 20,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, Alpha Real Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Hansa Investment. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Alpha Real Trust and 2 mentions for Hansa Investment. Hansa Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.69 beat Alpha Real Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Alpha Real Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Hansa Investment has a net margin of 85.77% compared to Hansa Investment's net margin of 15.11%. Alpha Real Trust's return on equity of 8.16% beat Hansa Investment's return on equity.
Hansa Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Alpha Real Trust. Hansa Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpha Real Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Alpha Real Trust beats Hansa Investment on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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