Real Estate Credit Investments (RECI) Competitors

Real Estate Credit Investments (LON:RECI) and Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (LON:GSS) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, media sentiment and dividends.

Which has better valuation & earnings, RECI or GSS?

Real Estate Credit Investments has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Genesis Emerging Markets Fund. Genesis Emerging Markets Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Real Estate Credit Investments, 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
Real Estate Credit Investments	£28.71M	9.47	£233.91M	£104.54	1.17
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund	£250.40M	0.00	N/A	£140.70	N/A

Does the media refer more to RECI or GSS?

In the previous week, Real Estate Credit Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Genesis Emerging Markets Fund'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Real Estate Credit Investments	Neutral
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund	Neutral

Is RECI or GSS a better dividend stock?

Real Estate Credit Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.8%. Genesis Emerging Markets Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.17 per share. Real Estate Credit Investments pays out 11.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Genesis Emerging Markets Fund pays out 0.1% 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.

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of RECI or GSS?

55.4% of Real Estate Credit Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of Real Estate Credit Investments shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Is RECI or GSS more profitable?

Real Estate Credit Investments has a net margin of 814.69% compared to Genesis Emerging Markets Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Real Estate Credit Investments' return on equity of 72.23% beat Genesis Emerging Markets Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Real Estate Credit Investments	814.69%	72.23%	4.07%
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer RECI or GSS?

Real Estate Credit Investments received 47 more outperform votes than Genesis Emerging Markets Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.67% of users gave Real Estate Credit Investments an outperform vote while only 62.00% of users gave Genesis Emerging Markets Fund an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Real Estate Credit Investments	Outperform Votes 109 72.67%	Underperform Votes 41 27.33%
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund	Outperform Votes 62 62.00%	Underperform Votes 38 38.00%

Summary

Real Estate Credit Investments beats Genesis Emerging Markets Fund on 8 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.