KPC vs. DUKE, DORE, MAJE, IPU, MGCI, AMAT, BSC, CYN, AEI, and SSIT
Should you be buying Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust include Duke Capital (DUKE), Downing Renewables & Infrastructure (DORE), Majedie Investments (MAJE), Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller (IPU), M&G Credit Income Investment (MGCI), Amati AIM VCT (AMAT), British Smaller Companies VCT2 (BSC), CQS Natural Resources Growth and Income (CYN), abrdn Equity Income Trust (AEI), and Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust (LON:KPC) and Duke Capital (LON:DUKE) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability and dividends.
Duke Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust. Duke Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Duke Capital had 16 more articles in the media than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 18 mentions for Duke Capital and 2 mentions for Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust. Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.86 beat Duke Capital's score of 0.24 indicating that Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Duke Capital has a consensus price target of GBX 55, suggesting a potential upside of 76.28%. Given Duke Capital's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Duke Capital is more favorable than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust has a beta of 1.21, indicating that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Duke Capital has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Duke Capital received 107 more outperform votes than Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust has a net margin of 83.22% compared to Duke Capital's net margin of 49.94%. Duke Capital's return on equity of 7.93% beat Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust's return on equity.
41.1% of Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 52.0% of Duke Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 6.2% of Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust 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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Duke Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust pays out 26.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Summary
Duke Capital beats Keystone Positive Change Investment Trust on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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