SMIF vs. RICA, CGT, TMPL, JEO, APEO, SAIN, SLPE, OCI, IEM, and MUT
Should you be buying TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund include Ruffer Investment (RICA), Capital Gearing (CGT), Temple Bar (TMPL), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Standard Life Private Equity Trust (SLPE), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), and Murray Income Trust (MUT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund vs. Its Competitors
Ruffer Investment (LON:RICA) and TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund (LON:SMIF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends and profitability.
In the previous week, TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund had 3 more articles in the media than Ruffer Investment. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund and 1 mentions for Ruffer Investment. Ruffer Investment's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's score of 0.60 indicating that Ruffer Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
43.3% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of Ruffer Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Ruffer Investment pays an annual dividend of GBX 5 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Ruffer Investment pays out 181.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays out -8,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Ruffer Investment has higher revenue and earnings than TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ruffer Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ruffer Investment received 8 more outperform votes than TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 68.46% of users gave TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund an outperform vote while only 63.82% of users gave Ruffer Investment an outperform vote.
Ruffer Investment has a net margin of 51.94% compared to TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's return on equity of 19.68% beat Ruffer Investment's return on equity.
Summary
Ruffer Investment beats TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund on 9 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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This page (LON:SMIF) was last updated on 6/15/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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