CT UK High Income Trust (CHIB) Competitors

CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (LON:CYN) and CT UK High Income Trust (LON:CHIB) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, risk, valuation, institutional ownership and community ranking.

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in CYN or CHIB?

22.5% of CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.3% of CT UK High Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.6% of CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.8% of CT UK High Income Trust shares are owned 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.

Is CYN or CHIB a better dividend stock?

CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. CT UK High Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income pays out 42.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CT UK High Income Trust pays out 6,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer CYN or CHIB?

CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income received 86 more outperform votes than CT UK High Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income	Outperform Votes 86 64.66%	Underperform Votes 47 35.34%
CT UK High Income Trust	N/A	N/A

Which has more volatility & risk, CYN or CHIB?

CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income has a beta of 1, meaning that its share price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.Comparatively, CT UK High Income Trust has a beta of 0.75, meaning that its share price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CYN or CHIB more profitable?

CT UK High Income Trust has a net margin of 84.52% compared to CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income's net margin of 68.67%. CT UK High Income Trust's return on equity of 10.59% beat CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income	68.67%	6.63%	-4.86%
CT UK High Income Trust	84.52%	10.59%	6.32%

Does the media favor CYN or CHIB?

In the previous week, CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income's average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat CT UK High Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income	Very Positive
CT UK High Income Trust	Neutral

Which has higher valuation and earnings, CYN or CHIB?

CT UK High Income Trust has higher revenue and earnings than CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income. CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than CT UK High Income 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
CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income	£12.63M	9.46	£8.67M	£14.07	13.50
CT UK High Income Trust	£13.28M	2.27	£11.22M	£0.10	990.00

Summary

CT UK High Income Trust beats CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.