MRCH vs. TFIF, GSCT, BBH, SYNC, SDP, JFJ, NBPE, ICGT, APEO, and VOF
Should you be buying Merchants Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Merchants Trust include TwentyFour Income (TFIF), The Global Smaller Companies Trust (GSCT), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), Syncona (SYNC), Schroder Investment Trust - Schroder AsiaPacific Fund (SDP), JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ), NB Private Equity Partners (NBPE), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust (APEO), and VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund (VOF). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Merchants Trust (LON:MRCH) and TwentyFour Income (LON:TFIF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation and risk.
TwentyFour Income received 6 more outperform votes than Merchants Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.44% of users gave TwentyFour Income an outperform vote while only 55.48% of users gave Merchants Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Merchants Trust had 2 more articles in the media than TwentyFour Income. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Merchants Trust and 2 mentions for TwentyFour Income. Merchants Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat TwentyFour Income's score of 0.44 indicating that Merchants Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Merchants Trust has higher revenue and earnings than TwentyFour Income. TwentyFour Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Merchants Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Merchants Trust has a net margin of 62.42% compared to TwentyFour Income's net margin of 0.00%. Merchants Trust's return on equity of 2.08% beat TwentyFour Income's return on equity.
Merchants Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.1%. TwentyFour Income pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.6%. Merchants Trust pays out 21,538.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TwentyFour Income pays out -33,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TwentyFour Income is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
6.0% of Merchants Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.7% of TwentyFour Income shares are held by institutional investors. 7.2% of Merchants Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of TwentyFour Income shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Merchants Trust beats TwentyFour Income on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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