Octopus Titan VCT (OTV2) Competitors

Octopus Titan VCT (LON:OTV2) and HgCapital Trust (LON:HGT) are both 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.

Is OTV2 or HGT a better dividend stock?

Octopus Titan VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%. HgCapital Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Octopus Titan VCT pays out -35.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HgCapital Trust pays out 11.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Octopus Titan VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has more volatility & risk, OTV2 or HGT?

Octopus Titan VCT has a beta of -0.09, indicating that its stock price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HgCapital Trust has a beta of 0.44, indicating that its stock price is 56% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in OTV2 or HGT?

HgCapital Trust received 81 more outperform votes than Octopus Titan VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.44% of users gave Octopus Titan VCT an outperform vote while only 62.15% of users gave HgCapital Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Octopus Titan VCT	Outperform Votes 29 67.44%	Underperform Votes 14 32.56%
HgCapital Trust	Outperform Votes 110 62.15%	Underperform Votes 67 37.85%

Which has better earnings and valuation, OTV2 or HGT?

HgCapital Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus Titan VCT. Octopus Titan VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HgCapital Trust, 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 Titan VCT	-£147.88M	-3.93	-£173.99M	-£11.30	-3.23
HgCapital Trust	£312.64M	7.64	£284.58M	£60.49	8.51

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of OTV2 or HGT?

0.1% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.7% of HgCapital Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.4% of HgCapital Trust 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.

Does the media prefer OTV2 or HGT?

In the previous week, Octopus Titan VCT had 5 more articles in the media than HgCapital Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Octopus Titan VCT and 0 mentions for HgCapital Trust. Octopus Titan VCT's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat HgCapital Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Octopus Titan VCT is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Octopus Titan VCT	Neutral
HgCapital Trust	Neutral

Is OTV2 or HGT more profitable?

Octopus Titan VCT has a net margin of 117.66% compared to HgCapital Trust's net margin of 91.03%. HgCapital Trust's return on equity of 11.93% beat Octopus Titan VCT's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Octopus Titan VCT	117.66%	-18.89%	-14.38%
HgCapital Trust	91.03%	11.93%	6.88%

Summary

HgCapital Trust beats Octopus Titan VCT on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.