ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LBOW) Competitors

Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 (LON:MAV4) and ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments (LON:LBOW) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment and dividends.

Which has preferable earnings & valuation, MAV4 or LBOW?

Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 has higher earnings, but lower revenue than ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Maven Income and Growth VCT 4, 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
Maven Income and Growth VCT 4	£4.20M	19.24	£1.33M	£0.91	60.65
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	£4.33M	4.68	-£24.46M	-£20.86	-0.82

Is MAV4 or LBOW a better dividend stock?

Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.5%. Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 pays out 441.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments pays out -19.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is MAV4 or LBOW more profitable?

Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 has a net margin of 31.71% compared to ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' net margin of -564.92%. Maven Income and Growth VCT 4's return on equity of 1.48% beat ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Maven Income and Growth VCT 4	31.71%	1.48%	-0.11%
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	-564.92%	-43.80%	N/A

Does the media favor MAV4 or LBOW?

In the previous week, Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 had 1 more articles in the media than ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 and 0 mentions for ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments. Maven Income and Growth VCT 4's average media sentiment score of 1.65 beat ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments' score of 0.00 indicating that Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Maven Income and Growth VCT 4	Very Positive
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments	Neutral

Do insiders & institutionals have more ownership in MAV4 or LBOW?

73.6% of ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 20.7% of ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Maven Income and Growth VCT 4 beats ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.