DUKE vs. DORE, KPC, IPU, MAJE, MGCI, AMAT, BSC, AEI, CYN, and HHV
Should you be buying Duke Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Duke Capital include Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE), Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust (KPC), Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller (IPU), Majedie Investments (MAJE), M&G Credit Income Investment (MGCI), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), British Smaller Companies VCT2 (BSC), abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (CYN), and Hargreave Hale AIM VCT (HHV). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (LON:DORE) and Duke Capital (LON:DUKE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and community ranking.
37.4% of Downing Renewables & Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.0% of Duke Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 25.8% of Downing Renewables & Infrastructure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Duke Capital shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Duke Capital received 107 more outperform votes than Downing Renewables & Infrastructure when rated by MarketBeat users.
Downing Renewables & Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.8%. Duke Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.4%. Downing Renewables & Infrastructure pays out 8,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Duke Capital pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Duke Capital has a net margin of 49.94% compared to Duke Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Downing Renewables & Infrastructure's return on equity of 7.93% beat Duke Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, Duke Capital had 25 more articles in the media than Downing Renewables & Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Duke Capital and 0 mentions for Downing Renewables & Infrastructure. Duke Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Downing Renewables & Infrastructure's score of 0.30 indicating that Downing Renewables & Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Duke Capital has a consensus target price of GBX 55, indicating a potential upside of 73.23%. Given Downing Renewables & Infrastructure's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Duke Capital is more favorable than Downing Renewables & Infrastructure.
Duke Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Downing Renewables & Infrastructure. Duke Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Downing Renewables & Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Duke Capital beats Downing Renewables & Infrastructure on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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