Diverse Income Trust (DIVI) Competitors

Diverse Income Trust (LON:DIVI) and Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) 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 institutional ownership, dividends, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings and profitability.

Does the media refer more to DIVI or RICA?

In the previous week, Diverse Income Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Ruffer Investment. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Diverse Income Trust and 0 mentions for Ruffer Investment. Diverse Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.02 beat Ruffer Investment's score of 0.00 indicating that Diverse Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Diverse Income Trust	Positive
Ruffer Investment	Neutral

Is DIVI or RICA a better dividend stock?

Diverse Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Diverse Income Trust pays out -2,222.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ruffer Investment pays out 181.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Diverse Income Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, DIVI or RICA?

Ruffer Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Diverse Income Trust. Diverse Income Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ruffer Investment, 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
Diverse Income Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	-£0.18	-570.12
Ruffer Investment	£16.91M	54.24	£8.78M	£2.75	103.67

Does the MarketBeat Community favor DIVI or RICA?

Diverse Income Trust received 26 more outperform votes than Ruffer Investment when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.96% of users gave Diverse Income Trust an outperform vote while only 63.82% of users gave Ruffer Investment an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Diverse Income Trust	Outperform Votes 123 67.96%	Underperform Votes 58 32.04%
Ruffer Investment	Outperform Votes 97 63.82%	Underperform Votes 55 36.18%

Is DIVI or RICA more profitable?

Ruffer Investment has a net margin of 51.94% compared to Diverse Income Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Diverse Income Trust's return on equity of 15.25% beat Ruffer Investment's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Diverse Income Trust	N/A	15.25%	N/A
Ruffer Investment	51.94%	0.96%	0.45%

Do institutionals and insiders believe in DIVI or RICA?

53.9% of Diverse Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.3% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by institutional investors. 4.0% of Diverse Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Diverse Income Trust beats Ruffer Investment on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.