Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 (MIG5) Competitors

Taylor Maritime Investments (LON:TMI) and Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 (LON:MIG5) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, earnings, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Which has better earnings and valuation, TMI or MIG5?

Taylor Maritime Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Maven Income and Growth VCT 5. Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Taylor Maritime Investments, 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
Taylor Maritime Investments	£9.25B	0.03	£8.08B	£0.24	3.39
Maven Income and Growth VCT 5	£1.35M	49.10	-£354.47K	-£0.15	-193.70

Which has more risk & volatility, TMI or MIG5?

Taylor Maritime Investments has a beta of 0.54, indicating that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 has a beta of 0.13, indicating that its stock price is 87% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is TMI or MIG5 more profitable?

Taylor Maritime Investments has a net margin of 87.36% compared to Maven Income and Growth VCT 5's net margin of -26.19%. Taylor Maritime Investments' return on equity of 16.59% beat Maven Income and Growth VCT 5's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Taylor Maritime Investments	87.36%	16.59%	-6.14%
Maven Income and Growth VCT 5	-26.19%	-0.49%	-3.05%

Does the media prefer TMI or MIG5?

In the previous week, Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 had 1 more articles in the media than Taylor Maritime Investments. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 and 0 mentions for Taylor Maritime Investments. Maven Income and Growth VCT 5's average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Taylor Maritime Investments' score of 0.00 indicating that Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Taylor Maritime Investments	Neutral
Maven Income and Growth VCT 5	Very Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in TMI or MIG5?

Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 received 65 more outperform votes than Taylor Maritime Investments when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave Taylor Maritime Investments an outperform vote while only 68.04% of users gave Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Taylor Maritime Investments	Outperform Votes 1 100.00%	Underperform Votes No Votes
Maven Income and Growth VCT 5	Outperform Votes 66 68.04%	Underperform Votes 31 31.96%

Do insiders and institutionals believe in TMI or MIG5?

36.4% of Taylor Maritime Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 24.6% of Taylor Maritime Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 shares are owned by company 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.

Is TMI or MIG5 a better dividend stock?

Taylor Maritime Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 963.9%. Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Taylor Maritime Investments pays out 3,268.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 pays out -1,291.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Summary

Taylor Maritime Investments beats Maven Income and Growth VCT 5 on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.