OSEC vs. TMI, HAN, BBH, ARR, STS, RECI, JAGI, BRK, BGUK, and CGL
Should you be buying Octopus AIM VCT 2 stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Octopus AIM VCT 2 include Taylor Maritime Investments (TMI), Hansa Investment (HAN), Bellevue Healthcare (BBH), Aurora Investment Trust (ARR), STS Global Income & Growth Trust (STS), Real Estate Credit Investments (RECI), JPMorgan Asia Growth & Income (JAGI), Brooks Macdonald Group (BRK), Baillie Gifford UK Growth Trust (BGUK), and Castelnau Group (CGL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Octopus AIM VCT 2 vs. Its Competitors
Octopus AIM VCT 2 (LON:OSEC) and Taylor Maritime Investments (LON:TMI) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Octopus AIM VCT 2 pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%. Taylor Maritime Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 884.0%. Octopus AIM VCT 2 pays out -607.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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.
Taylor Maritime Investments has a net margin of 87.36% compared to Octopus AIM VCT 2's net margin of -17.95%. Taylor Maritime Investments' return on equity of 16.59% beat Octopus AIM VCT 2's return on equity.
36.4% of Taylor Maritime Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Octopus AIM VCT 2 shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 24.6% of Taylor Maritime Investments shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Octopus AIM VCT 2's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Taylor Maritime Investments'average media sentiment score.
Taylor Maritime Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus AIM VCT 2. Octopus AIM VCT 2 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.
Octopus AIM VCT 2 has a beta of 0.55, suggesting that its stock price is 45% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Taylor Maritime Investments has a beta of 0.54, suggesting that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Taylor Maritime Investments beats Octopus AIM VCT 2 on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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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This page (LON:OSEC) was last updated on 7/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
