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Rights & Issues Investment Trust (RIII) Competitors

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GBX 2,120 -10.00 (-0.47%)
As of 08/29/2025 12:46 PM Eastern
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RIII vs. PCGH, NESF, BRFI, DIG, HEFT, FAS, BHIU, ORIT, ANII, and CHIU

Should you be buying Rights & Issues Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rights & Issues Investment Trust include Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (PCGH), NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF), BlackRock Frontiers (BRFI), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (DIG), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), Fidelity Asian Values (FAS), BMO UK High Income Trust (BHIU), Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), abrdn New India Investment Trust (ANII), and CT UK High Income Trust (CHIU). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Rights & Issues Investment Trust vs. Its Competitors

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (LON:PCGH) and Rights & Issues Investment Trust (LON:RIII) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Rights & Issues Investment Trust. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Rights & Issues Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare-£53.48M-7.73£77.59M-£0.46-740.66
Rights & Issues Investment Trust£12.32M8.23£15.28M£2.23949.40

5.8% of Polar Capital Glb Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.9% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Polar Capital Glb Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 21.8% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are held 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.

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.02 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare pays out -5.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays out 19.4% 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.

Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a net margin of 93.27% compared to Polar Capital Glb Healthcare's net margin of 91.60%. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare's return on equity of 16.14% beat Rights & Issues Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare91.60% 16.14% N/A
Rights & Issues Investment Trust 93.27%12.60%1.65%

In the previous week, Rights & Issues Investment Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Polar Capital Glb Healthcare. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Rights & Issues Investment Trust and 0 mentions for Polar Capital Glb Healthcare. Rights & Issues Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.45 beat Polar Capital Glb Healthcare's score of 0.00 indicating that Rights & Issues Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare Neutral
Rights & Issues Investment Trust Positive

Summary

Rights & Issues Investment Trust beats Polar Capital Glb Healthcare on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

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RIII vs. The Competition

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MetricRights & Issues Investment TrustAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£102.78M£1.46B£6.36B£2.79B
Dividend Yield2.06%4.61%4.33%5.32%
P/E Ratio949.404,455.541,695.825,162.88
Price / Sales8.231,990.791,386.62101,256.49
Price / Cash12.1160.63127.5827.93
Price / Book0.821.393.726.30
Net Income£15.28M£265.04M£1.23B£5.89B
7 Day Performance-2.01%0.31%0.01%0.19%
1 Month Performance-2.77%1.39%2.46%50.41%
1 Year Performance-15.20%6.82%27.76%154.75%

Rights & Issues Investment Trust Competitors List

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CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RIII
Rights & Issues Investment Trust
N/AGBX 2,120
-0.5%		N/A-15.2%£102.78M£12.32M949.401Positive News
PCGH
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare
N/AGBX 345
+0.6%		N/A-14.5%£416.15M£84.70M5.34N/ADividend Increase
NESF
NextEnergy Solar Fund
N/AGBX 70.50
+1.3%		N/A-16.7%£409.81M£3.35M-30.09N/A
BRFI
BlackRock Frontiers
N/AGBX 170.99
+0.4%		N/A+14.8%£405.94M£96.46M6.94N/ADividend Increase
DIG
Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust
N/AGBX 300
flat		N/A+1.4%£402.59M£40.96M11.06N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
HEFT
Henderson European Focus Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£400.01M£79.72M537.14N/AHigh Trading Volume
FAS
Fidelity Asian Values
N/AGBX 572
+0.7%		N/A+17.0%£398.23M£22.46M34.93N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
BHIU
BMO UK High Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£391.68M£3.93M16,900.00N/AGap Up
ORIT
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust
N/AGBX 70.40
-0.8%		N/A-13.2%£390.93M£28.91M21.54N/APositive News
ANII
abrdn New India Investment Trust
N/AGBX 803.36
-0.1%		N/A-3.0%£389.89M£149.92M3.34N/ANews Coverage
Insider Trade
CHIU
CT UK High Income Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£383.24M£12.28M3,677.78N/A

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This page (LON:RIII) was last updated on 8/31/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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