RIII vs. IPX, FSFL, HONY, NESF, CHRY, JUGI, JPGI, PCGH, PAC, and POLN
Should you be buying Rights & Issues Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rights & Issues Investment Trust include Impax Asset Management Group (IPX), Foresight Solar (FSFL), Pollen Street (HONY), NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF), Chrysalis Investments (CHRY), JPMorgan UK Small Cap Growth & Income (JUGI), Jpmorgan Global Growth & Income (JPGI), Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (PCGH), Pacific Assets (PAC), and Pollen Street Group (POLN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Impax Asset Management Group (LON:IPX) and Rights & Issues Investment Trust (LON:RIII) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, earnings and risk.
Impax Asset Management Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 28 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Impax Asset Management Group pays out 9,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays out 7,049.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
67.6% of Impax Asset Management Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.5% of Impax Asset Management Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 31.3% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Impax Asset Management Group received 168 more outperform votes than Rights & Issues Investment Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 78.76% of users gave Impax Asset Management Group an outperform vote while only 67.92% of users gave Rights & Issues Investment Trust an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Rights & Issues Investment Trust had 22 more articles in the media than Impax Asset Management Group. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Rights & Issues Investment Trust and 4 mentions for Impax Asset Management Group. Rights & Issues Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.17 beat Impax Asset Management Group's score of -0.12 indicating that Impax Asset Management Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Impax Asset Management Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 620, suggesting a potential upside of 53.47%. Given Rights & Issues Investment Trust's higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Impax Asset Management Group is more favorable than Rights & Issues Investment Trust.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a net margin of 74.94% compared to Rights & Issues Investment Trust's net margin of 21.99%. Rights & Issues Investment Trust's return on equity of 28.82% beat Impax Asset Management Group's return on equity.
Impax Asset Management Group has a beta of 1.51, indicating that its stock price is 51% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Impax Asset Management Group has higher revenue and earnings than Rights & Issues Investment Trust. Impax Asset Management Group 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.
Summary
Impax Asset Management Group beats Rights & Issues Investment Trust on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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