OOA vs. PAC, IPO, JUP, ORIT, POLR, RTW, HEFT, DIG, JEMI, and BHIU
Should you be buying Octopus AIM VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Octopus AIM VCT include Pacific Assets (PAC), IP Group (IPO), Jupiter Fund Management (JUP), Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), Polar Capital (POLR), RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (DIG), JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts (JEMI), and BMO UK High Income Trust (BHIU). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Octopus AIM VCT vs.
Octopus AIM VCT (LON:OOA) and Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, dividends, risk and institutional ownership.
Octopus AIM VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%. Pacific Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Octopus AIM VCT pays out 1,336.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pacific Assets pays out 11.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Pacific Assets has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus AIM VCT. Pacific Assets is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Octopus AIM VCT, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Octopus AIM VCT has a beta of 0.5, indicating that its stock price is 50% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Assets has a beta of 0.38, indicating that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Pacific Assets has a net margin of 70.84% compared to Octopus AIM VCT's net margin of 21.28%. Pacific Assets' return on equity of 8.79% beat Octopus AIM VCT's return on equity.
Pacific Assets received 48 more outperform votes than Octopus AIM VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.00% of users gave Pacific Assets an outperform vote while only 69.57% of users gave Octopus AIM VCT an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Octopus AIM VCT had 1 more articles in the media than Pacific Assets. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Octopus AIM VCT and 2 mentions for Pacific Assets. Octopus AIM VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Pacific Assets' score of 0.59 indicating that Octopus AIM VCT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
43.6% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Octopus AIM VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Pacific Assets beats Octopus AIM VCT on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:OOA) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
