REC vs. WKOF, AATG, SSIT, AAEV, RIII, AADV, BSC, BGCG, NTN, and BRLA
Should you be buying Record stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Record include Weiss Korea Opportunity (WKOF), Albion Technology & Gen VCT (AATG), Seraphim Space Investment Trust (SSIT), Albion Enterprise VCT (AAEV), Rights & Issues Investment Trust (RIII), Albion Development VCT (AADV), British Smaller Companies VCT 2 (BSC), Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust (BGCG), Northern 3 VCT (NTN), and BlackRock Latin American (BRLA). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Record (LON:REC) and Weiss Korea Opportunity (LON:WKOF) 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 valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Record pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Weiss Korea Opportunity pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.8%. Record pays out 10,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Weiss Korea Opportunity pays out -8,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
20.5% of Record shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.0% of Weiss Korea Opportunity shares are held by institutional investors. 62.4% of Record shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.8% of Weiss Korea Opportunity 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.
Record has higher revenue and earnings than Weiss Korea Opportunity. Weiss Korea Opportunity is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Record, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Record received 113 more outperform votes than Weiss Korea Opportunity when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.15% of users gave Record an outperform vote while only 66.35% of users gave Weiss Korea Opportunity an outperform vote.
Record has a net margin of 22.35% compared to Weiss Korea Opportunity's net margin of 0.00%. Record's return on equity of 34.94% beat Weiss Korea Opportunity's return on equity.
In the previous week, Record had 140 more articles in the media than Weiss Korea Opportunity. MarketBeat recorded 140 mentions for Record and 0 mentions for Weiss Korea Opportunity. Record's average media sentiment score of 0.07 beat Weiss Korea Opportunity's score of 0.00 indicating that Record is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Record beats Weiss Korea Opportunity on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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