Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT) Competitors

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (LON:ORIT) and JTC (LON:JTC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.

Do analysts rate ORIT or JTC?

JTC has a consensus target price of GBX 1,275, indicating a potential upside of 40.96%. Given JTC's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe JTC is more favorable than Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
JTC	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	3.00

Which has more volatility and risk, ORIT or JTC?

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust has a beta of 0.15, indicating that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JTC has a beta of 0.68, indicating that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is ORIT or JTC a better dividend stock?

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%. JTC pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust pays out 183.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JTC pays out 67.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in ORIT or JTC?

60.0% of Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.1% of JTC shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.2% of JTC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has higher valuation and earnings, ORIT or JTC?

JTC has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust. Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JTC, 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
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust	£28.91M	13.35	£18.16M	£3.27	21.27
JTC	£291.42M	5.22	£29.99M	£17.83	50.73

Is ORIT or JTC more profitable?

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust has a net margin of 62.83% compared to JTC's net margin of 10.29%. JTC's return on equity of 5.70% beat Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust	62.83%	3.10%	1.89%
JTC	10.29%	5.70%	4.96%

Does the media refer more to ORIT or JTC?

In the previous week, JTC had 14 more articles in the media than Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for JTC and 1 mentions for Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust. Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat JTC's score of 0.43 indicating that Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive
JTC	2 Very Positive mention(s)	7 Positive mention(s)	6 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

JTC beats Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust on 14 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.