SMIF vs. TMPL, OCI, RICA, SAIN, CGT, ICGT, IEM, JEO, MUT, and APEO
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), ICG Enterprise Trust (ICGT), Impax Environmental Markets (IEM), European Opportunities Trust (JEO), Murray Income Trust (MUT), and abrdn Private Equity Opportunities (APEO). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund vs. Its Competitors
Temple Bar (LON:TMPL) and TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund (LON:SMIF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and profitability.
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 pays an annual dividend of GBX 10 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.0%. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 7 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.1%. Temple Bar pays out 18.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund pays out -8,750.0% 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.
34.5% of Temple Bar shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 4.7% of Temple Bar 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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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, Temple Bar and Temple Bar both had 1 articles in the media. Temple Bar's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
Temple Bar beats TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund on 8 of the 10 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 7/18/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
