OTV2 vs. FSV, BBGI, MUT, FCSS, SAIN, IHP, TRY, APEO, RICA, and AGT
Should you be buying Octopus Titan VCT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Octopus Titan VCT include Fidelity Special Values (FSV), BBGI Global Infrastructure (BBGI), Murray Income Trust (MUT), Fidelity China Special (FCSS), Scottish American (SAIN), IntegraFin (IHP), TR Property (TRY), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust (APEO), Ruffer Investment (RICA), and AVI Global Trust (AGT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Fidelity Special Values (LON:FSV) and Octopus Titan VCT (LON:OTV2) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and dividends.
Fidelity Special Values pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Octopus Titan VCT pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.7%. Fidelity Special Values pays out 5,294.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Octopus Titan VCT pays out -2,105.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Octopus Titan VCT is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Fidelity Special Values received 77 more outperform votes than Octopus Titan VCT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.81% of users gave Fidelity Special Values an outperform vote while only 67.44% of users gave Octopus Titan VCT an outperform vote.
Fidelity Special Values has higher revenue and earnings than Octopus Titan VCT. Octopus Titan VCT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fidelity Special Values, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Fidelity Special Values has a beta of 1.11, indicating that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Octopus Titan VCT has a beta of -0.09, indicating that its share price is 109% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Fidelity Special Values has a net margin of 77.11% compared to Fidelity Special Values' net margin of 0.00%. Octopus Titan VCT's return on equity of 5.80% beat Fidelity Special Values' return on equity.
60.8% of Fidelity Special Values shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.1% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.9% of Fidelity Special Values shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Octopus Titan VCT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Fidelity Special Values and Fidelity Special Values both had 1 articles in the media. Octopus Titan VCT's average media sentiment score of 1.36 beat Fidelity Special Values' score of 0.00 indicating that Fidelity Special Values is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Fidelity Special Values beats Octopus Titan VCT on 14 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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