RIII vs. PAC, TAM, RTW, JEMI, ORIT, NAIT, DIG, HEFT, PCGH, and ANII
Should you be buying Rights & Issues Investment Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Rights & Issues Investment Trust include Pacific Assets (PAC), Tatton Asset Management (TAM), RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW), JPMorgan Global Emerg Mkts (JEMI), Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust (ORIT), North American Income Trust (NAIT), Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust (DIG), Henderson European Focus Trust (HEFT), Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (PCGH), and abrdn New India Investment Trust (ANII). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust vs. Its Competitors
Rights & Issues Investment Trust (LON:RIII) and Pacific Assets (LON:PAC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
18.5% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 43.6% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.3% of Rights & Issues Investment Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Pacific Assets shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Pacific Assets pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Rights & Issues Investment Trust pays out 13.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Pacific Assets pays out 11.3% 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.
Pacific Assets has higher revenue and earnings than Rights & Issues Investment Trust. Rights & Issues Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Pacific Assets, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pacific Assets has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Rights & Issues Investment Trust had 8 more articles in the media than Pacific Assets. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Rights & Issues Investment Trust and 1 mentions for Pacific Assets. Rights & Issues Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat Pacific Assets' score of 0.17 indicating that Rights & Issues Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Rights & Issues Investment Trust has a net margin of 93.27% compared to Pacific Assets' net margin of 70.84%. Rights & Issues Investment Trust's return on equity of 12.60% beat Pacific Assets' return on equity.
Summary
Rights & Issues Investment Trust beats Pacific Assets on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RIII) was last updated on 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff