Diverse Income Trust (DIVI) Competitors

Standard Life Private Equity Trust (LON:SLPE) and Diverse Income Trust (LON:DIVI) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, risk, dividends and analyst recommendations.

Do insiders & institutionals hold more shares of SLPE or DIVI?

53.9% of Diverse Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.0% of Diverse Income Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is SLPE or DIVI more profitable?

Diverse Income Trust's return on equity of 15.25% beat Standard Life Private Equity Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A
Diverse Income Trust	N/A	15.25%	N/A

Is SLPE or DIVI a better dividend stock?

Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Diverse Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Standard Life Private Equity Trust pays out 0.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Diverse Income Trust pays out -2,222.2% 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. Diverse Income Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has stronger earnings and valuation, SLPE or DIVI?

Diverse Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Standard Life Private Equity 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
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	£251.60M	3.45	N/A	£155.20	3.64
Diverse Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	-£0.18	-532.22

Does the media prefer SLPE or DIVI?

In the previous week, Standard Life Private Equity Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Diverse Income Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Neutral
Diverse Income Trust	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer SLPE or DIVI?

Standard Life Private Equity Trust received 15 more outperform votes than Diverse Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 69.70% of users gave Standard Life Private Equity Trust an outperform vote while only 67.96% of users gave Diverse Income Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Standard Life Private Equity Trust	Outperform Votes 138 69.70%	Underperform Votes 60 30.30%
Diverse Income Trust	Outperform Votes 123 67.96%	Underperform Votes 58 32.04%

Summary

Standard Life Private Equity Trust and Diverse Income Trust tied by winning 5 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.