Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD) Competitors

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (LON:CORD) and RIT Capital Partners (LON:RCP) are both financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, risk, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Is CORD or RCP a better dividend stock?

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 4.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. RIT Capital Partners pays an annual dividend of GBX 41 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Cordiant Digital Infrastructure pays out 31.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RIT Capital Partners pays out 22.0% 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.

Which has more volatility & risk, CORD or RCP?

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RIT Capital Partners has a beta of 0.4, meaning that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is CORD or RCP more profitable?

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has a net margin of 820.71% compared to RIT Capital Partners' net margin of 162.20%. Cordiant Digital Infrastructure's return on equity of 94.37% beat RIT Capital Partners' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure	820.71%	94.37%	5.89%
RIT Capital Partners	162.20%	4.70%	4.22%

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of CORD or RCP?

32.5% of Cordiant Digital Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.4% of RIT Capital Partners shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Cordiant Digital Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 19.6% of RIT Capital Partners shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Which has better valuation & earnings, CORD or RCP?

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure has higher earnings, but lower revenue than RIT Capital Partners. Cordiant Digital Infrastructure 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Cordiant Digital Infrastructure	£109.05M	6.94	£846.28M	£13.74	7.19
RIT Capital Partners	£304.80M	9.76	£167.81M	£186.60	11.50

Does the media prefer CORD or RCP?

In the previous week, Cordiant Digital Infrastructure had 2 more articles in the media than RIT Capital Partners. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Cordiant Digital Infrastructure and 1 mentions for RIT Capital Partners. RIT Capital Partners' average media sentiment score of 0.30 beat Cordiant Digital Infrastructure's score of -0.25 indicating that RIT Capital Partners 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)	2 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
RIT Capital Partners	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure beats RIT Capital Partners on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.