Baronsmead Second Venture Trust (BMD) Competitors

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (LON:CORD) and Baronsmead Second Venture Trust (LON:BMD) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, earnings and valuation.

Is CORD or BMD more profitable?

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has a net margin of 820.71% compared to Baronsmead Second Venture Trust's net margin of 38.32%. Cordiant Digital Infrastructure's return on equity of 94.37% beat Baronsmead Second Venture Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure	820.71%	94.37%	5.89%
Baronsmead Second Venture Trust	38.32%	1.95%	1.23%

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, CORD or BMD?

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has higher revenue and earnings than Baronsmead Second Venture Trust. Cordiant Digital Infrastructure is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Baronsmead Second Venture Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure	£103.12M	7.29	£846.28M	£109.04	0.89
Baronsmead Second Venture Trust	£11.82M	16.90	£4.53M	£1.16	44.10

Which has more risk and volatility, CORD or BMD?

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has a beta of 0.67, indicating that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Baronsmead Second Venture Trust has a beta of 0.24, indicating that its stock price is 76% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in CORD or BMD?

62.1% of Cordiant Digital Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of Cordiant Digital Infrastructure shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Baronsmead Second Venture Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is CORD or BMD a better dividend stock?

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Baronsmead Second Venture Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Cordiant Digital Infrastructure pays out 3.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Baronsmead Second Venture Trust pays out 345.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the media favor CORD or BMD?

In the previous week, Cordiant Digital Infrastructure and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure both had 1 articles in the media. Baronsmead Second Venture Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Cordiant Digital Infrastructure's score of 0.00 indicating that Baronsmead Second Venture Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
Baronsmead Second Venture Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Summary

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure beats Baronsmead Second Venture Trust on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.