SMIF vs. TMPL, OCI, RICA, SAIN, CGT, IEM, ICGT, JEO, APEO, 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 Temple Bar (TMPL), Oakley Capital Investments (OCI), Ruffer Investment (RICA), Scottish American Investment (SAIN), Capital Gearing (CGT), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO), and Murray Income Trust (MUT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund vs. Its Competitors
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund (LON:SMIF) and Temple Bar (LON:TMPL) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
13.0% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.5% of Temple Bar shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 4.7% of Temple Bar shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Temple Bar 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 Temple Bar, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Temple Bar has a net margin of 98.26% compared to TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Temple Bar's return on equity of 20.62% beat TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's return on equity.
In the previous week, TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund had 2 more articles in the media than Temple Bar. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund and 1 mentions for Temple Bar. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.39 beat Temple Bar's score of 0.20 indicating that TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.0%. Temple Bar pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays out -8,750.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Temple Bar pays out 18.6% 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. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Temple Bar beats TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund on 8 of the 12 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 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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