BSIF vs. RCP, INPP, EMG, PHLL, SSON, MNKS, HGT, BUR, CTY, and WWH
Should you be buying Bluefield Solar Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Bluefield Solar Income Fund include RIT Capital Partners (RCP), International Public Partnerships (INPP), Man Group (EMG), Petershill Partners (PHLL), Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), Monks (MNKS), HgCapital Trust (HGT), Burford Capital (BUR), City of London (CTY), and Worldwide Healthcare (WWH). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund (LON:BSIF) and RIT Capital Partners (LON:RCP) are both finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings and profitability.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.5%. RIT Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 39 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Bluefield Solar Income Fund pays out 3,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. RIT Capital Partners pays out 2,407.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has a beta of 0.14, indicating that its stock price is 86% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RIT Capital Partners has a beta of 0.4, indicating that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Bluefield Solar Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled RIT Capital Partners'average media sentiment score.
RIT Capital Partners has higher revenue and earnings than Bluefield Solar Income Fund. Bluefield Solar Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RIT Capital Partners, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bluefield Solar Income Fund has a net margin of 85.88% compared to RIT Capital Partners' net margin of 76.28%. RIT Capital Partners' return on equity of 6.68% beat Bluefield Solar Income Fund's return on equity.
59.7% of Bluefield Solar Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 22.9% of RIT Capital Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 5.4% of Bluefield Solar Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 41.4% of RIT Capital Partners shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
RIT Capital Partners received 39 more outperform votes than Bluefield Solar Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.26% of users gave RIT Capital Partners an outperform vote while only 60.11% of users gave Bluefield Solar Income Fund an outperform vote.
Summary
RIT Capital Partners beats Bluefield Solar Income Fund on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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